cvs commit: src/sys/dev/usb umass.c

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <200702272233.l1RMXocb004983 at repoman.freebsd.org>, Warner Losh write
s:

>  Some USB mass storage devices return the number of sectors in response
>  to a READ_CAPACITY request rather than the maximum sector (off by one
>  problem).  This causes a huge cascade of errors as the geom tasting
>  code tries to read the last sector (which isn't really there in the
>  face of this error).  automated tools that manipulate disk labels and
>  such also have issues.
>  
>  Create a new quirk READ_CAPACITY_OFFBY1 

A better idea would be to have scsi_da.c try to read the 
last sector and chop it if it fails.

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