Re: regarding bug #5914 - fs corruption on SATA

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Fri, Jan 27 2006, Ric Wheeler wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Jan 26 2006, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>
> >>I applied the fua backout patch and the kernel booted beautifully.
> >>Now I guess I need to see if Maxtor released a fixed firmware right ?
> >>(is it possible to change the firmware on a running system ?)
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >If you can get an update firmware, it is usually done by booting from
> >DOS floppy and running a special flash utility from there. Can you send
> >me the hdparm -I /dev/sdX output of the problem drive? I think we should
> >just blacklist it for FUA. This bug is so obscure I think it's a better
> >solution than adding a FUA disable module parameter at this point.
> >
> > 
> >
> I am not sure that drive vendors support firmware upgrades - the 
> downside is that you can produce a nice paper weight if the firmware 
> upgrade fails ;-)

Yeah, hence most of them don't put it online. It would be nice to have,
though...

> Also, there are specific versions where I know that you cannot jump from 
> firmware version X to version X + 1. 

That's unfortunate, too.

-- 
Jens Axboe