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SubjectRe: PROBLEM: sata timeouts with intel 82801HB on amd64
Paolo Ornati wrote:
> If mounting XFS with "nobarrier" fixes the problem it seems that more
> than one Seagate disk cannot handle the Cache Flush command while other
> commands are in fly...

It's not allowed to overlap NCQ (FPDMA read/write) commands with any
other commands such as cache flushes. libata core guarantees that this
doesn't happen by deferring such requests until the FPDMA commands are
complete. (At least, it's supposed to..)

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