[Bug 264789] Re: USB Hard Drive Not Accessible, vol_id hangs

[Stefan Bader]

Robert wrote:

> These devices seem to work fine on Windows and OS/X.  What do they do 
> differently?  (Especially OS/X, since it is in part open source as "Darwin".)

Not access the last sector for example. The problems with most of the devices 
started when Linux added scans for md meta-data on the complete drive (not the 
partition). And md meta-data is at the end of the usable space. Actually 
somewhere in those many reports (can't remember which) there was a comment that 
those cases also start behaving badly when you really try to access the last 
sector from Windows.

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USB Hard Drive Not Accessible, vol_id hangs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/264789
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