Re: SATA exceptions triggered by XFS (since 2.6.18)

[Tejun Heo]

Paolo Ornati wrote:
> > > === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> > > Model Family:     Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 and 7200.7 Plus family
> > > Device Model:     ST380817AS
> > I'll blacklist it.  Thanks.
>
> Ok. It will be better if someone else with the same HD could confirm.
>
> It looks so strange that an HD that works fine, and should support NCQ,
> have so big troubles that I can "freeze" it in less than a second by
> using XFS (while with ext3 I cannot, or at least it's very hard).

Yeap, certainly.  I'll ask people first before actually proceeding with 
the blacklisting.  I'm just getting a bit tired of tides of NCQ firmware 
problems.

Anyways, for the time being, you can easily turn off NCQ using sysfs. 
Please take a look at http://linux-ata.org/faq.html

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tejun
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