From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Allen Martin <AMartin@nvidia.com>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
Kuan Luo <kluo@nvidia.com>, Peer Chen <pchen@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: sata_nv + ADMA + Samsung disk problem
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:57:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <477BDEA5.8040701@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F72FA20C31DD4F4C997B91C5B3690A09505577@hqemmail07.nvidia.com>
Allen Martin wrote:
>> The question I had for NVIDIA regarding this that I never got
>> answered
>> was, is there any reason why we would need a delay when switching
>> between NCQ and non-NCQ commands on ADMA, and if not, is
>> there any known
>> cause that could cause the controller to get into this seemingly
>> locked-up state?
>
> When switching from NCQ to non NCQ or vice versa you must make sure all
> outstanding commands are completed before issuing the new command. The
> hardware doesn't do anything to prevent queued and non queued commands
> from going out on the wire at the same time which will certainly cause
> some drives to fail.
The software definitely provides that guarantee for all NCQ-capable
controllers.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-02 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-08 12:08 sata_nv + ADMA + Samsung disk problem Gabor Gombas
2007-08-14 9:30 ` Tejun Heo
2007-08-14 12:02 ` Gabor Gombas
2007-08-16 16:06 ` Gabor Gombas
2007-08-16 18:45 ` Jim Paris
2008-01-01 16:44 ` Gabor Gombas
2008-01-02 3:25 ` Tejun Heo
2008-01-02 4:03 ` Robert Hancock
2008-01-02 4:20 ` Robert Hancock
2008-01-02 4:25 ` Tejun Heo
2008-01-02 6:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-01-02 6:39 ` Robert Hancock
2008-01-02 6:55 ` Tejun Heo
2008-01-03 0:27 ` Robert Hancock
2008-01-02 17:23 ` Allen Martin
2008-01-02 18:57 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2008-01-02 23:23 ` Allen Martin
2008-01-03 0:21 ` Robert Hancock
2008-01-03 4:14 ` Mark Lord
2008-01-03 4:17 ` Mark Lord
2008-01-03 4:54 ` Robert Hancock
2008-01-03 15:44 ` Mark Lord
2008-01-03 15:47 ` Mark Lord
2008-01-03 21:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-04 1:43 ` Robert Hancock
2008-01-04 5:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-04 0:41 ` Allen Martin
2008-01-04 2:51 ` Robert Hancock
2008-01-08 0:10 ` Robert Hancock
2008-01-11 23:18 ` Gabor Gombas
2008-01-12 1:10 ` Robert Hancock
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