Re: [PATCH] USB Harddrive not recognized (umass appears, da0 not)

From: Tobias Grosser <grosser_at_fim.uni-passau.de>
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:08:30 +0200
On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 08:56 +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 September 2009 01:26:57 Tobias Grosser wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 21:07 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 06:59:18PM +0200, Tobias Grosser wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 11:52 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 07:09:29PM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I looks like your device is hanging on SCSI command
> > > > > > 0x12,00,00,00,4a,00
> > > > >
> > > > > 0x12 is an inquiry, which is bad if the device has problems with.
> > > >
> > > > I tried Linux on the same computer and the drive worked without any
> > > > problems.
> > >
> > > If those are timestamps then there is a 5 second delay.
> > > I wouldn't say that this is without problems.
> > > Maybe Linux just has a different handling of the case.
> > >
> > > > ---------------------------------------
> > > > linux_dmesg.log is attached.
> > > > ---------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > There was also another report where the drive did not work on FreeBSD.
> > > > I mailed the user and he did not get it to run on FreeBSD, but his
> > > > drive also works on Linux.
> > > >
> > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-September/028999
> > > >.html
> > > >
> > > > As I have two of these drives, I am pretty sure my device is not
> > > > completely broken, but WD has some uncommon/broken way to interact with
> > > > FreeBSD.
> > > >
> > > > To narrow it down I run the usb.org compliance test utility.
> > > >
> > > > http://www.usb.org/developers/tools/ : USB20CV R1.3.5.5
> > >
> > > As Hans Petter said: this is not a USB problem, it is at SCSI.
> > >
> > > > The results for the generic device test and for the USB mass storage
> > > > test are attached.
> > >
> > > If this is just are startup problem you won't see anything at all after
> > > probing is over.
> > > My assumption would be that the device missbehaves until it spun up.
> > > But this is just an assumption.
> >
> > Thanks to all of you who pointed me in the right direction. It seems the
> > way inquiries are handled was broken.
> > I solved the problem by adding a new quirk for the WD MyPassword Series.
> >
> > Do you think this is the right approach? May this break anything else?
> > And finally if everything is alright, can someone commit this patch?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Tobi
> 
> Can you try this:
> 
> +       {USB_VENDOR_WESTERN, USB_PRODUCT_WESTERN_MYPASSWORD, RID_WILDCARD,
> +               UMASS_PROTO_DEFAULT,
> +               FORCE_SHORT_INQUIRY
> +       },

OK. I forgot to remove unnecessary quirks. I just tried your patch and
it also works.

Thanks

Tobi
Received on Tue Sep 01 2009 - 06:08:37 UTC

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