Quirk for this?

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Mon Feb 26 06:01:26 UTC 2007


In message: <7579f7fb0702231017rdc246ebqeface91c9d5481e3 at mail.gmail.com>
            "Matthew Jacob" <lydianconcepts at gmail.com> writes:
: > The question is: Given that I know that the first USB/CF adapter
: > always reports one too big, is there a way this can be fixed?
: 
: There are two problems here that I see:
: 
: a) The GEOM taste code cannot be overridden.
: 
: b) How do we accomodate/detect broken h/w?
: 
: I'm inclined to think that GEOM stuff cannot/should not be "fixed".
: The second question is the harder one.
: 
: You personally can fix this for yourself by doing your own specialized
: quirk matching and just adjusting the READ CAPACITY results
: accordingly. We have to ask whether this particular breakage is both
: widespread enough and the devices important enough to try and
: generalize some solution for.

I took a look at Linux, and they have a quirk for this.  A bunch of
cameras have this bug, as do iPods and a few media readers...

Warner


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