From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paolo Ornati Subject: Re: [PATCH] blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:52:07 +0200 Message-ID: <20070930175207.5bfa89a8@localhost> References: <20070930160548.235be972@localhost> <20070930152908.1f58d39d@the-village.bc.nu> <20070930164610.20818867@localhost> <46FFBB2D.6060004@garzik.org> <20070930172859.7fd44eab@localhost> <46FFC42A.9080300@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from aa012msr.fastwebnet.it ([85.18.95.72]:36772 "EHLO aa012msr.fastwebnet.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757473AbXI3PwR (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:52:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <46FFC42A.9080300@garzik.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Alan Cox , Tejun Heo , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:43:38 -0400 Jeff Garzik wrote: > > it isn't supported here: > > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA > > Did you actually try my suggestion? Yes ("libata.fua=1" is ok I think, or it should just be "libata.fua"?): ... [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda6 ro vga=0x305 libata.fua=1 ... [ 285.004166] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ... > > That message is normal, because libata defaults to FUA==off. -- Paolo Ornati Linux 2.6.23-rc8-ga64314e6 on x86_64