Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933099AbXBVOl3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:41:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933098AbXBVOl3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:41:29 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:2169 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933094AbXBVOl2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:41:28 -0500 Message-ID: <45DDAB95.6070903@rtr.ca> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:41:25 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jens Axboe Cc: Jeff Garzik , Robert Hancock , linux-kernel , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: add NCQ blacklist entries from Silicon Image Windows driver References: <45DD2EC9.4050403@shaw.ca> <45DD3EC7.3050801@garzik.org> <20070222113226.GI5549@kernel.dk> In-Reply-To: <20070222113226.GI5549@kernel.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1240 Lines: 25 Jens Axboe wrote: >> Robert Hancock wrote: >.. >>> + /* The following blacklist entries are taken from the Windows >>> + driver .inf files for the Silicon Image 3124 and 3132. */ >>> + { "Maxtor 7B250S0", "BANC1B70", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ, }, >>> + { "HTS541060G9SA00", "MB3OC60D", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ, }, >>> + { "HTS541080G9SA00", "MB4OC60D", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ, }, >>> + { "HTS541010G9SA00", "MBZOC60D", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ, }, >> Do we have information that these drives fail on non-SiI controllers? >> >> Sometimes the problem can be related to a single family of controllers. > > I don't know about the Hitachi's, but the Maxtor with that firmware is > definitely broken. It _appeared_ to work if the depth was limited to 4, > but I didn't test it long enough to be absolutely certain. So the safest > is indeed to blacklist it. Yes, broken on the Silicon Image controllers for sure. But what type of controller did you observe the failures on, Jens ? - 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/