From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH #upstream-fixes] libata: blacklist Seagate drives which time out FLUSH_CACHE when used with NCQ
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:24:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <493439DF.7030304@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <492E23E0.2090800@kernel.org>
Tejun Heo wrote:
> Some recent Seagate harddrives have firmware bug which causes FLUSH
> CACHE to timeout under certain circumstances if NCQ is being used.
> This can be worked around by disabling NCQ and fixed by updating the
> firmware. Implement ATA_HORKAGE_FIRMWARE_UPDATE and blacklist these
> devices.
>
> The wiki page has been updated to contain information on this issue.
>
> http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Known_issues
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> ---
> drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/libata.h | 1 +
applied
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2008-11-27 4:36 [PATCH #upstream-fixes] libata: blacklist Seagate drives which time out FLUSH_CACHE when used with NCQ Tejun Heo
2008-12-01 19:24 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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