Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:06:56 +0900
> Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> From: Paolo Ornati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS has troubles with NCQ. For example,
>> unpacking a tarball on an XFS filesystem gives this:
>>
>> ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
>> ata1.00: cmd 61/40:00:29:a3:98/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 32768 out
>>          res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
> 
> Looking at this and our NCQ code I don't see any provision for drive
> unfairness in our code. If we continue to issue commands to the drive I'm
> not seeing where we guarantee a given command will ever complete rather
> than being deferred forever by a dumb drive - which some SCSI drives also
> will do...

After several such timeouts, libata will turn off NCQ which should solve
the problem.

-- 
tejun
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