From: Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk>
To: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>
Cc: "Phillip O'Donnell" <phillip.odonnell@gmail.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Oskar Liljeblad <oskar@osk.mine.nu>,
Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sata errors with Seagate 1.5TB on AMD 780G/SB700 motherboard
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:33:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1226057597.17253.98.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4908E5B6.1080703@redhat.com>
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 18:37 -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote:
> Phillip O'Donnell wrote:
<snip>
> I am just going based on what I read at the Seagate customer site - it
> looks like the hang was during the processing of the ATA_CACHE_FLUSH_EXT
> command.
>
> New drives are routinely buggy to some degree, especially ones that jump
> up in capacity :-) Seagate has a well earned reputation for quality and
> I will be surprised if they don't fix this issue soon,
Is there any new information on this? so far the only thing i can find
seems to be people reporting the issue, but no word from seagate..
>
> Ric
>
> >
> >> I suspect that the drive is simply choking on the barrier related cache
> >> flushing that we do - that seemed to be the MacOS error as well. The windows
> >> comment suggested that windows had an hba/driver bug (most likely unrelated
> >> to this).
> >>
> >> If you want to avoid the issue until they fix the drive, you could run fast
> >> and dangerous (mount without barriers on) or slow and safe (disable the
> >> write cache).
> >>
>
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <fa.01zEaARwrup2dCOTuHTYxzuS9BI@ifi.uio.no>
2008-10-28 23:19 ` sata errors with Seagate 1.5TB on AMD 780G/SB700 motherboard Robert Hancock
2008-10-29 18:58 ` Oskar Liljeblad
2008-10-29 20:17 ` Alan Cox
2008-10-29 20:23 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-10-29 20:52 ` Phillip O'Donnell
2008-10-29 22:37 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-11-07 11:33 ` Kasper Sandberg [this message]
2008-11-07 12:27 ` Ric Wheeler
[not found] ` <fa.Dwk+NgWNu7+JRcsgOPCxSr7y5SQ@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.fIxdVik0iPc+lS+sd5ef+ZoALzQ@ifi.uio.no>
2008-10-30 0:39 ` [PATCH] libata: Avoid overflow in ata_tf_to_lba48() when tf->hba_lbal > 127 Robert Hancock
2008-10-28 17:01 sata errors with Seagate 1.5TB on AMD 780G/SB700 motherboard Oskar Liljeblad
2008-10-28 17:59 ` David Rees
2008-10-28 23:25 ` Phillip O'Donnell
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