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]?

Please send us the output of:

# sg_vpd -p bl /dev/sdN
# sg_vpd -p bdc /dev/sdN
# sg_readcap -l /dev/sdN

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering