Re: hdparm-9.17 released, with experimental trim/wiper scripts for SSDs

[Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>]

Mark Lord wrote:
> hdparm-9.17 is now available from sourceforge.net.
> 
> New in this release:
>        - added wiper/ subdirectory with preliminary SSD-wiper (TRIM) 
..

Tejun:  on a related note, my Sil-3132 PCIe SATA controller doesn't
seem to like DSM/TRIM commands passing through it.

[ 3479.010001] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[ 3479.010008] ata4.00: irq_stat 0x00020002, protocol mismatch
[ 3479.010019] ata4.00: cmd 06/01:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 512 out
[ 3479.010021]          res dc/33:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:dc/00 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[ 3479.010025] ata4.00: status: { Busy }
[ 3479.010029] ata4.00: error: { IDNF }
[ 3479.010041] ata4: hard resetting link
[ 3481.193102] ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 0)
[ 3481.197043] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 3481.197082] ata4: EH complete

I haven't taken time to dig further yet, but perhaps somebody here
might know if they've hardcoded all of the ATA opcodes in silicon or
something, and now get confused by DSM/TRIM ?

I'll dig further into that later this summer.