Re: [PATCH 2/2] ata: libata-core: Apply ATI NCQ horkage to ASPEED as well

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Apr 18 2023 - 01:24:23 EST


On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 06:17:20PM -0700, Patrick McLean wrote:
> We have some machines with ASPEED SATA controllers, and are seeing the same NCQ
> issues that ATI controllers (I am not sure if it's a rebranded ATI controller,
> or they both have some faulty implementation). This NCQ breakage is consistent
> across a few different types of drives.
>
> Instead of maintaining a list of drives that are broken with ASPEED controllers

Are these ASPEED controllers all the same or a wide variety?
Quirking all controllers from the same vendor seems like an overly
broad approach to me.