Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: sata errors with Seagate 1.5TB on AMD 780G/SB700 motherboard | From | Kasper Sandberg <> | Date | Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:33:17 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 18:37 -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote: > Phillip O'Donnell wrote: <snip> > I am just going based on what I read at the Seagate customer site - it > looks like the hang was during the processing of the ATA_CACHE_FLUSH_EXT > command. > > New drives are routinely buggy to some degree, especially ones that jump > up in capacity :-) Seagate has a well earned reputation for quality and > I will be surprised if they don't fix this issue soon,
Is there any new information on this? so far the only thing i can find seems to be people reporting the issue, but no word from seagate..
> > Ric > > > > >> I suspect that the drive is simply choking on the barrier related cache > >> flushing that we do - that seemed to be the MacOS error as well. The windows > >> comment suggested that windows had an hba/driver bug (most likely unrelated > >> to this). > >> > >> If you want to avoid the issue until they fix the drive, you could run fast > >> and dangerous (mount without barriers on) or slow and safe (disable the > >> write cache). > >> > > -- > 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/
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