Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268295AbUJDQIc (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2004 12:08:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268296AbUJDQI2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2004 12:08:28 -0400 Received: from cpu1185.adsl.bellglobal.com ([207.236.110.166]:53176 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268281AbUJDQIU (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2004 12:08:20 -0400 Message-ID: <4161750A.6060200@rtr.ca> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:06:34 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Knop Cc: Jon Lewis , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: libata badness References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 854 Lines: 22 I have used Maxtor "SATA" drives that require the O/S to do a "SET FEATURES :: UDMA_MODE" command on them before they will operate reliably. This despite the SATA spec stating clearly that such a command should/will have no effect. I suppose libata does this already, but just in case not.. Something simple to check up on. -- Mark Lord (hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy") William Knop wrote: > > Ah, well all of them are Maxtor drives... One 6y250m0 and three 7y250m0 > drives. I'm using powermax on them right now. They all passed the quick > test, and the full test results are forthcoming. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/