Re: [PATCH] libata: add NCQ blacklist entries from Silicon Image Windows driver

Robert Hancock
2007-02-23T00:18:53Z

Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
>
> On Feb 21, 2007, at 10:57 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>> + /* The following blacklist entries are taken from the Windows
>>> + driver .inf files for the Silicon Image 3124 and 3132. */
>>> + { "Maxtor 7B250S0", "BANC1B70", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ, },
> [...]
>>
>> Do we have information that these drives fail on non-SiI controllers?
>
> At least tangentially related:
>
> On one of my boxes (running 2.6.18-1.2869 from Fedora) I have a couple
> of other Maxtor drives that didn't like NCQ. They are on a JMicron
> 20360/20363 (ahci driver). (There's also a Promise 300 TX4 card in the
> box and an Intel ICH8 that shows up with ata_piix).
>
> model and (partial) firmware revision of the drives:
> Maxtor 7V300F0 VA11
> Maxtor 7B300S0 BANC
>
> Until I disabled NCQ I got gazillions of messages like the ones below
> and absymal performance.
>
> - ask
>
>
> ata5: spurious interrupt (irq_stat 0x8 active_tag -84148995 sactive 0xf)

Sounds like those are some that we should be blacklisting as well,
unless Eric has a good reason why not (CCing). Can you provide the full
firmware revision strings from those drives, i.e. from "hdparm -I"?

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