From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ric Wheeler Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] libata: turn off NCQ if queue depth is adjusted to 1 Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:56:28 -0400 Message-ID: <451FBAFC.4040001@emc.com> References: <20060930104439.GP25800@htj.dyndns.org> <20060930104500.GQ25800@htj.dyndns.org> <20060930180359.GP4163@kernel.dk> <1159649460.13029.145.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060930202628.GF5670@kernel.dk> <451F0927.2010804@emc.com> <451F0BF7.1000200@gmail.com> <451F1148.5050604@emc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mexforward.lss.emc.com ([128.222.32.20]:1118 "EHLO mexforward.lss.emc.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932164AbWJAM5y (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Oct 2006 08:57:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <451F1148.5050604@emc.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo , Jens Axboe Cc: Alan Cox , Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Ric Wheeler wrote: > > Tejun Heo wrote: > >> >> Ric, can you press harddisk vendors hard enough such that those model >> and revision numbers squeeze out of them? >> >> Thanks. > > > I will certainly push to get drive vendors to work with us on this. It > is in everyone's interest to have the drives avoid stressing features > that are not stable ;-) > > Even better, we can usually try to work the bugs out with vendors > before the drives become public which should help minimize the issues. > Just thinking out loud, but it would be really helpful to get drive vendor's a basic set of tests for Linux systems - error handling, performance, SMART features, etc - that would run natively on linux. We would need to get something really easy to deploy, like a live CD image with the test suite that could be booted on a pc, to get into an environment that is used to booting DOS based floppies...