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> I believe the problem is the driver is using too many tags on an old
> drive.  You want to cut the number or disable tagged queing in the
> driver for this drive.  Grant would know the details but early Seagates
> had buggy support for this feature.

I turn it off on my cluster of 715/50's because the drives of that era
just don't support it properly (e.g. random hardware lockups).

c.