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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:30:27 -0600
From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
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To: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Faulty seagate drives, are going to be blacklisted?
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Diego Calleja wrote:
> El Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:55:05 -0600, Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> escribió:
> 
>> There are a few drives which are currently marked to disable NCQ and 
>> warn the user that the firmware that should be upgraded:
>>
>> ST31500341AS
>> ST31000333AS
>> ST3640623AS
>> ST3640323AS
>> ST3320813AS
>> ST3320613AS
>>
>> all for firmware versions SD15 through SD19.
> 
> 
> Yes, I saw them, but apparently the NCQ bug is unrelated to this one.

I suspect it might be related, given that the firmware versions seem to 
partially overlap.

With this issue though, there isn't anything the kernel can do about the 
problem, so blacklisting doesn't seem to really make much sense.
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