Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:18:47 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] libata: add NCQ blacklist entries from Silicon Image Windows driver |
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Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > > On Feb 21, 2007, at 10:57 PM, Jeff Garzik 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, }, > [...] >> >> Do we have information that these drives fail on non-SiI controllers? > > At least tangentially related: > > On one of my boxes (running 2.6.18-1.2869 from Fedora) I have a couple > of other Maxtor drives that didn't like NCQ. They are on a JMicron > 20360/20363 (ahci driver). (There's also a Promise 300 TX4 card in the > box and an Intel ICH8 that shows up with ata_piix). > > model and (partial) firmware revision of the drives: > Maxtor 7V300F0 VA11 > Maxtor 7B300S0 BANC > > Until I disabled NCQ I got gazillions of messages like the ones below > and absymal performance. > > - ask > > > ata5: spurious interrupt (irq_stat 0x8 active_tag -84148995 sactive 0xf)
Sounds like those are some that we should be blacklisting as well, unless Eric has a good reason why not (CCing). Can you provide the full firmware revision strings from those drives, i.e. from "hdparm -I"?
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