Re: [PATCH] blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS

2007-10-02 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:19:14 +0900 Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, "World's first" is a pretty good clue indicating "broken". > Blacklisting it seems like a good idea after all. OT: I cannot test anything NCQ related for a while because the Intel Mobo departed yesterday, so I'm on a

Re: [PATCH] blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS

2007-10-02 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Mark Lord wrote: > Mmm.. $66 for "open box". But the drive itself has been discontinued by > Seagate, Couldn't find any in SUSE and I don't think I can't find any vendor who still carries the drive here. > and once claimed to be "World's first SATA desktop drive with NCQ.". > > Probably

Re: [PATCH] blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS

2007-10-01 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 10/01/2007 01:45 AM, Robert Hancock wrote: > Are you sure this isn't just a bum drive? Looking at the SMART listing > that was posted, looks like it's had some uncorrectable sector read > errors in the event log.. Seagate is known to report wrong numbers in smart. regards, -- Jiri Slaby ([EMA

Re: [PATCH] blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS

2007-10-01 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:45:41 -0600 Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you sure this isn't just a bum drive? Looking at the SMART listing > that was posted, looks like it's had some uncorrectable sector read > errors in the event log.. Don't know. The error count is still 12 today,

Re: [PATCH] blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS

2007-09-30 Thread Robert Hancock
Paolo Ornati wrote: Hi, I think you forgot to blacklist this one :) -- Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS has troubles with NCQ. For example, unpacking a tarball on an XFS filesystem gives this: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd 61/40:00:29:a3:98/00:00:00:

Re: [PATCH] blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS

2007-09-30 Thread Mark Lord
Mark Lord wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: Mark Lord wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: Mark Lord wrote: If there was such a bug, the aborted commands list should contain both FPDMA commands and FLUSH commands. I don't think command filtering itself is broken. Possibly another quirky firmware but it's strange t

Re: [PATCH] blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS

2007-09-30 Thread Mark Lord
Tejun Heo wrote: Mark Lord wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: Mark Lord wrote: If there was such a bug, the aborted commands list should contain both FPDMA commands and FLUSH commands. I don't think command filtering itself is broken. Possibly another quirky firmware but it's strange that this is the on

Re: [PATCH] blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS

2007-09-30 Thread Tejun Heo
Mark Lord wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> Mark Lord wrote: >> If there was such a bug, the aborted commands list should contain both >> FPDMA commands and FLUSH commands. I don't think command filtering >> itself is broken. Possibly another quirky firmware but it's strange >> that this is the only S

Re: [PATCH] blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS

2007-09-30 Thread Mark Lord
Tejun Heo wrote: Mark Lord wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Paolo Ornati wrote: I have this problem only with XFS, and even with XFS it goes away mounting with "nobarrier"... This last is an interesting datapoint. I wonder if libata has a generic problem with NCQ + FLUSH CACHE. Yeah, that's pretty

Re: [PATCH] blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS

2007-09-30 Thread Tejun Heo
Mark Lord wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Paolo Ornati wrote: >>> I have this problem only with XFS, and even with XFS it goes away >>> mounting with "nobarrier"... >> >> This last is an interesting datapoint. >> >> I wonder if libata has a generic problem with NCQ + FLUSH CACHE. > > Yeah, that's p

Re: [PATCH] blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS

2007-09-30 Thread Mark Lord
Jeff Garzik wrote: Paolo Ornati wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:29:08 +0100 Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS has troubles with NCQ. For example, unpacking a tarball on an XFS filesystem gives this: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen

Re: [PATCH] blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS

2007-09-30 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:59:45 -0400 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is libata built into the kernel, or a module? built-in, my kernel is pretty monolithic -- Paolo Ornati Linux 2.6.23-rc8-ga64314e6 on x86_64 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lin

Re: [PATCH] blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS

2007-09-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Paolo Ornati wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:43:38 -0400 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: it isn't supported here: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Did you actually try my suggestion? Yes ("libata.fua=1" is ok I think, or it should

Re: [PATCH] blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS

2007-09-30 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:43:38 -0400 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > it isn't supported here: > > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't > > support DPO or FUA > > Did you actually try my suggestion? Yes ("libata.fua=1" is ok I think, or it should just b

Re: [PATCH] blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS

2007-09-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Paolo Ornati wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:05:17 -0400 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have this problem only with XFS, and even with XFS it goes away mounting with "nobarrier"... This last is an interesting datapoint. I wonder if libata has a generic problem with NCQ + FLUSH CACHE

Re: [PATCH] blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS

2007-09-30 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:05:17 -0400 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have this problem only with XFS, and even with XFS it goes away > > mounting with "nobarrier"... > > This last is an interesting datapoint. > > I wonder if libata has a generic problem with NCQ + FLUSH CACHE. > >

Re: [PATCH] blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS

2007-09-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Paolo Ornati wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:29:08 +0100 Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS has troubles with NCQ. For example, unpacking a tarball on an XFS filesystem gives this: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd 61/40:0

Re: [PATCH] blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS

2007-09-30 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:29:08 +0100 Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS has troubles with NCQ. For example, > > unpacking a tarball on an XFS filesystem gives this: > > > > ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > > ata1.00: cmd 61/40:00:2

Re: [PATCH] blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS

2007-09-30 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 07:17:05 -0700 Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paolo Ornati wrote: > > Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS has troubles with NCQ. For example, > > unpacking a tarball on an XFS filesystem gives this: > > > > ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > >

Re: [PATCH] blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS

2007-09-30 Thread Alan Cox
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:05:48 +0200 Paolo Ornati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I think you forgot to blacklist this one :) > > -- > Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS has troubles with NCQ. For example, > unpacking a tarball on an XFS filesystem gives this: > > ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1

Re: [PATCH] blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS

2007-09-30 Thread Tejun Heo
Paolo Ornati wrote: > Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS has troubles with NCQ. For example, > unpacking a tarball on an XFS filesystem gives this: > > ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > ata1.00: cmd 61/40:00:29:a3:98/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 32768 out >