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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: add NCQ blacklist entries from Silicon Image
 Windows driver
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:18:47 -0600
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Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, "Eric D. Mudama" <edmudama@gmail.com>

Ask Bj=F8rn Hansen wrote:
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> On Feb 21, 2007, at 10:57 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
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>>> +    /* The following blacklist entries are taken from the Windows
>>> +       driver .inf files for the Silicon Image 3124 and 3132. */
>>> +    { "Maxtor 7B250S0",    "BANC1B70",    ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ, },
> [...]
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>> Do we have information that these drives fail on non-SiI controllers=
?
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> At least tangentially related:
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> On one of my boxes (running 2.6.18-1.2869 from Fedora) I have a coupl=
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> of other Maxtor drives that didn't like NCQ.   They are on a JMicron=20
> 20360/20363 (ahci driver).  (There's also a Promise 300 TX4 card in t=
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> box and an Intel ICH8 that shows up with ata_piix).
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> model and (partial) firmware revision of the drives:
> Maxtor 7V300F0  VA11
> Maxtor 7B300S0  BANC
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> Until I disabled NCQ I got gazillions of messages like the ones below=
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> and absymal performance.
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>   - ask
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> ata5: spurious interrupt (irq_stat 0x8 active_tag -84148995 sactive 0=
xf)

Sounds like those are some that we should be blacklisting as well,=20
unless Eric has a good reason why not (CCing). Can you provide the full=
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firmware revision strings from those drives, i.e. from "hdparm -I"?

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