[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1449005] Re: trim does not work with Samsung 840 EVO after firmware update (EXT0DB6Q)

2015-06-15 Thread Mark Rein
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1338706 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338706 Here's an edited summary of the reply I got from the please contact our firmware engineers at xxx@xxx address; turns out there's no engineers there either, but at least we finally have a sane non-formletter

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1449005] Re: trim does not work with Samsung 840 EVO after firmware update (EXT0DB6Q)

2015-06-13 Thread Mark Rein
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1338706 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338706 Success! By not mentioning triggering keywords, the support person wasn't offered the normal form-letter reply, and had to actually read what I said. As a result, they replied with the direct email to their

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1449005] Re: trim does not work with Samsung 840 EVO after firmware update (EXT0DB6Q)

2015-06-12 Thread Mark Rein
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1338706 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338706 Got that braindead form-reply again, yet again blaming SAMSUNG'S FAULT on Linux: --- Thank you for contacting Samsung Support regarding your concerns and inquiries. We apologize for any inconvenience this

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1449005] Re: trim does not work with Samsung 840 EVO after firmware update (EXT0DB6Q)

2015-06-12 Thread Mark Rein
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1338706 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338706 My final attempt at contacting Samsung's braindead support monkeys, this time without any mention of the word trim, and I decided to lie and say that I'm a hardware controller manufacturer who discovered

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1449005] Re: trim does not work with Samsung 840 EVO after firmware update (EXT0DB6Q)

2015-06-12 Thread Mark Rein
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1338706 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338706 I have now sent a second email to Samsung's support, this time being much more detailed about *exactly* why their drive is broken. If they keep coming back with their retarded form-reply again, I will just

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1338706] Re: Samsung SSD 840 failed to get NCQ Send/Recv Log Emask 0x1 failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x40) on upstream kernels = 3.12

2015-06-12 Thread Mark Rein
I have reached out to Samsung again to hopefully get this falsely advertised feature fixed at the firmware level, since the firmware is at fault for advertising FPDMA QUEUED support (which is what QUEUED TRIM uses), even though it doesn't support it at all. Read this post for the letter I sent to

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1449005] Re: trim does not work with Samsung 840 EVO after firmware update (EXT0DB6Q)

2015-05-27 Thread Mark Rein
Turns out this I support Queued TRIM! issue is a year old and affected the entire previous generation too: Discovered by kernel devs in the 840 Pro and 840 Evo: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72341 and also discussed here:

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1449005] Re: trim does not work with Samsung 840 EVO after firmware update (EXT0DB6Q)

2015-05-26 Thread Mark Rein
Followup: My email to Samsung clearly and succinctly stated that there is a bug in their firmware, where it wrongly reports I support NCQ TRIM! but it really doesn't, and that they introduced the bug recently. I said nothing about Linux. Their mentally retarded response: Dear Customer, Thank you

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1449005] Re: trim does not work with Samsung 840 EVO after firmware update (EXT0DB6Q)

2015-05-25 Thread Mark Rein
The exact same bug also affects the 850 PRO: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ide/msg50342.html Originally, they came with EXM01B6Q, which reports I do NOT support NCQ TRIM!. Then, samsung released EXM02B6Q, which wrongly reports I SUPPORT NCQ TRIM!, but of course they don't; the data corrupts

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1210361] Re: [Samsung NP540U3C-A01UB] Incorrect battery/power status and missing /proc/acpi/battery

2013-10-27 Thread Mark Rein
Hello, I have the same problem with Samsung NP530. Could I do something that could help you to resovle this bug? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210361 Title: [Samsung