Eamonn Hamilton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a couple of Samsung HD501LJ drives attached to a KN9 Ultra
> board using the MCp55 chipset, and I'm getting an NCQ depth of 0
> reported at boot, which as I understand it is because support for NCQ
> isn't in the sata_nv driver yet for this chipset.
> 
> ata1.00: ATA-7, max UDMA7, 976773168 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
> ata2.00: ATA-7, max UDMA7, 976773168 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)

Yeap.

> Later in the boot, however, I get 
> SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
> support DPO or FUA
> SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
> support DPO or FUA
> 
> which as I understand it means my data ( plus the wifes picture
> archive! ) is at risk, as I have write cache enabled and barrier support
> is disabled because of the lack of FUA. Is this caused by my drives, or
> is there something I need to enable?

Nothing is in danger.  FUA just speeds up barrier a tad bit.  Doesn't
matter really.

-- 
tejun
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