From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: Faulty seagate drives, are going to be blacklisted? Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:30:27 -0600 Message-ID: <49766CA3.7090508@shaw.ca> References: <20090120002923.065f24ca@diego-desktop> <49753D09.8060503@shaw.ca> <20090120162612.7473aadf@diego-desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca ([64.59.134.9]:13652 "EHLO idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758799AbZAUAaa (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:30:30 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090120162612.7473aadf@diego-desktop> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Diego Calleja Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Diego Calleja wrote: > El Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:55:05 -0600, Robert Hancock = escribi=C3=B3: >=20 >> There are a few drives which are currently marked to disable NCQ and= =20 >> warn the user that the firmware that should be upgraded: >> >> ST31500341AS >> ST31000333AS >> ST3640623AS >> ST3640323AS >> ST3320813AS >> ST3320613AS >> >> all for firmware versions SD15 through SD19. >=20 >=20 > Yes, I saw them, but apparently the NCQ bug is unrelated to this one. I suspect it might be related, given that the firmware versions seem to= =20 partially overlap. With this issue though, there isn't anything the kernel can do about th= e=20 problem, so blacklisting doesn't seem to really make much sense.