Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762994AbXKHXeX (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Nov 2007 18:34:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762787AbXKHXeJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Nov 2007 18:34:09 -0500 Received: from idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca ([24.71.223.10]:61853 "EHLO pd2mo3so.prod.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762722AbXKHXeH (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Nov 2007 18:34:07 -0500 Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:32:24 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: sata NCQ blacklist entry In-reply-to: To: Luca Tettamanti Cc: Tejun Heo , jeff@garzik.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, IDE/ATA development list Message-id: <47339C88.9050300@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2196 Lines: 47 Luca Tettamanti wrote: > On Nov 7, 2007 1:55 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: >> Florian La Roche wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I've taking email addresses from the last NCQ blacklist changes going >>> into the kernel. >>> This Fujitsu drive also gives me spurious command completions. Detailed >>> output also available at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=366181. >>> >>> Let me know if you need more info or anything else. >>> >>> --- drivers/ata/libata-core.c >>> +++ drivers/ata/libata-core.c >>> @@ -4222,6 +4222,7 @@ >>> { "WDC WD740ADFD-00NLR1", NULL, ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ, }, >>> { "WDC WD3200AAJS-00RYA0", "12.01B01", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ, }, >>> { "FUJITSU MHV2080BH", "00840028", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ, }, >>> + { "FUJITSU MHW2160BJ G2", NULL, ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ }, >>> { "ST9120822AS", "3.CLF", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ, }, >>> { "ST9160821AS", "3.CLF", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ, }, >>> { "ST9160821AS", "3.ALD", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ, }, >> Thanks. We're currently trying to find out what's actually going on >> with all these drives. At first, drives which got blacklisted aren't >> many and made sense (had other problems with NCQ, etc..) but with new >> generation drives from many vendors showing the same symptom, we aren't >> too sure now. > > Is there a way to tell whether Windows is using NCQ or not? I checked > the system log (or whatever it's called) on my notebook and is clean > but I'm not sure it's using NCQ (I don't even know if it'd log > spurious completions somewhere). Which driver is installed for the SATA controller in Windows, the chipset-manufacturer-provided AHCI driver or the default Microsoft driver? You'd need the AHCI driver installed for NCQ to be used. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - 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/