From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Another Seagate SATA drive with the NCQ+FLUSH_CACHE bug Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:36:27 +0900 Message-ID: <496ED96B.2050901@kernel.org> References: <20090114213451.3395e8d1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:47829 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753927AbZAOGhI (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:37:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090114213451.3395e8d1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Kyle Moffett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hello, Kyle, Andrew. Andrew Morton wrote: > (cc linux-ide) > > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:54:51 -0500 "Kyle Moffett" wrote: > >> I've got a 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (ST3250820AS) with firmware >> 3.AAE on it here that seems to suffer from the same problem hang >> problem as a number of similar seagate drives. What information do I >> need to provide to get it added to the blacklist? Beyond that I'm >> also going through seagate support to try to get a firmware upgrade >> for the thing, as performance without NCQ tends to be not-so-good. >> >> Kernel messages of the SATA error below (it's on an ICH controller of >> some variety). >> >> Cheers, >> Kyle Moffett >> >> [100226.331199] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen >> [100226.331241] ata1.01: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 >> [100226.331244] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask >> 0x4 (timeout) >> [100226.331821] ata1.01: status: { DRDY } >> [100231.371102] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) >> [100236.353120] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset >> [100236.353156] ata1: soft resetting link >> [100241.551827] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) >> [100246.367827] ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16) >> [100246.367859] ata1: soft resetting link >> [100251.563827] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) >> [100256.377083] ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16) >> [100256.377116] ata1: soft resetting link >> [100261.575827] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) >> [100291.423827] ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16) >> [100291.423861] ata1: soft resetting link >> [100296.451826] ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16) >> [100296.451855] ata1: reset failed, giving up >> [100296.451881] ata1.00: disabled >> [100296.451906] ata1.01: disabled >> [100296.451950] ata1: EH complete I don't think it's the same problem. The disk doesn't go down on the drives with SD1[5-9] firmwares. More likely a broken drive, I think. How reproducible is the problem? Thanks. -- tejun