Re: [PATCH] libata: add NCQ blacklist entries from Silicon ImageWindows driver

From: Robert Hancock
Date: Thu Feb 22 2007 - 19:19:16 EST


Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:

On Feb 21, 2007, at 10:57 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:

+ /* The following blacklist entries are taken from the Windows
+ driver .inf files for the Silicon Image 3124 and 3132. */
+ { "Maxtor 7B250S0", "BANC1B70", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ, },
[...]

Do we have information that these drives fail on non-SiI controllers?

At least tangentially related:

On one of my boxes (running 2.6.18-1.2869 from Fedora) I have a couple of other Maxtor drives that didn't like NCQ. They are on a JMicron 20360/20363 (ahci driver). (There's also a Promise 300 TX4 card in the box and an Intel ICH8 that shows up with ata_piix).

model and (partial) firmware revision of the drives:
Maxtor 7V300F0 VA11
Maxtor 7B300S0 BANC

Until I disabled NCQ I got gazillions of messages like the ones below and absymal performance.

- ask


ata5: spurious interrupt (irq_stat 0x8 active_tag -84148995 sactive 0xf)

Sounds like those are some that we should be blacklisting as well, unless Eric has a good reason why not (CCing). Can you provide the full firmware revision strings from those drives, i.e. from "hdparm -I"?

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