Re: 5.2.x kernel: WD 8TB USB Drives: Unaligned partial completion (resid=78, sector_sz=512)

[Martin K. Petersen]

Justin,

>> Attached 2 x brand new Western Digital 8TB USB 3.0 drives awhile back
>> and ran some file copy tests and was getting these warnings-- is
>> there any way to avoid these warnings?  I did confirm with parted
>> that the partition was aligned but this appears to be something
>> related to the firmware on the device according to [1] and [2]?

> sg_vpd_bdc.txt
> Block device characteristics VPD page (SBC):
>   Nominal rotation rate: 5400 rpm
>   Product type: Not specified
>   WABEREQ=0
>   WACEREQ=0
>   Nominal form factor: 3.5 inch
>   ZONED=0

Damien: What can we do to limit the messages in cases like this? Would
it make sense to make the residual warning conditional on sd_is_zoned()?

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering