Hi, I think you forgot to blacklist this one :) -- 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) More info here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/21/76 Blacklist it! Signed-off-by: Paolo Ornati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c index 772be09..be289d0 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c @@ -3781,6 +3781,7 @@ static const struct ata_blacklist_entry ata_device_blacklist [] = { { "Maxtor 7B250S0", "BANC1B70", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ, }, { "Maxtor 7B300S0", "BANC1B70", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ }, { "Maxtor 7V300F0", "VA111630", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ }, + { "ST380817AS", "3.42", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ }, { "HITACHI HDS7250SASUN500G 0621KTAWSD", "K2AOAJ0AHITACHI", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ }, /* NCQ hard hangs device under heavier load, needs hard power cycle */ -- Paolo Ornati Linux 2.6.23-rc8-ga64314e6-dirty on x86_64 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/