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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Peer Chen <pchen@nvidia.com>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>, kuan luo <kuanluo@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	Kuan Luo <kluo@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ata: Add the SW NCQ support to sata_nv for MCP51/MCP55/MCP61
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 04:34:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4682211D.4040808@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15F501D1A78BD343BE8F4D8DB854566B15830128@hkemmail01.nvidia.com>

Peer Chen wrote:
> We did the many test with the new version driver and didn't encounter
> that problem, but in certain cases, DMASETUP command packets from drive
> to the controller are corrupted, and the controller issues an R_ERR to
> the drive. Drives that comply with SATA spec will re-transmit the
> corrupted packet and normal operation continues. However, some Maxtor
> NCQ drives do not re-transmit the DMASETUP command packet, resulting in
> software timeout for this command. So if you are using the Maxtor HD and
> meet this problem,please don't enable the NCQ function.

Users should not be expected to know those details, nor be forced to 
suffer discovering this in the field (over and over again for each 
customer).

We have a list of problem devices ata_device_blacklist[] in 
drivers/ata/libata-core.c that should be modified to note each drive 
where NCQ should never be used.

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-27  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.5TBvnXzjCgAIfcuKOLBWeXi+y5I@ifi.uio.no>
2007-06-27  5:06 ` [PATCH] ata: Add the SW NCQ support to sata_nv for MCP51/MCP55/MCP61 Robert Hancock
2007-06-27  8:15   ` Peer Chen
2007-06-27  8:34     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-06-27 16:09     ` Prakash Punnoor
2007-07-06  8:31 kuan luo
2007-07-07  7:33 ` Zoltan Boszormenyi
2007-07-09  2:48   ` Peer Chen
2007-07-09 16:28     ` Prakash Punnoor
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-27 10:51 Zoltan Boszormenyi
2007-07-03 22:31 ` Zoltan Boszormenyi
2007-07-05 18:53   ` Bill Davidsen
2007-06-27  3:04 kuan luo
2007-06-27  5:26 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-27  9:09   ` Kuan Luo
2007-06-27  9:21     ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-27 10:17       ` Kuan Luo

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