western digital WD1500ADFD: spurious completions during NCQ

From: Jeff Garrett
Date: Wed Oct 17 2007 - 16:08:26 EST


Several threads that suggest this message is related to poor NCQ
support, but I did not see any for this drive. It's a Western Digital
WD1500ADFD-00NLR1. Is this the same thing, and should this drive be
blacklisted?

ata1.00: exception Emask 0x2 SAct 0x1f1 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
ata1.00: spurious completions during NCQ issue=0x0 SAct=0x1f1 FIS=004040a1:00000008
ata1.00: cmd 61/10:00:90:d3:e8/00:00:0a:00:00/40 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 8192 out
res 40/00:08:80:fc:34/00:00:04:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
ata1.00: cmd 61/40:20:8e:2e:b8/00:00:06:00:00/40 tag 4 cdb 0x0 data 32768 out
res 40/00:08:80:fc:34/00:00:04:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
ata1.00: cmd 61/40:28:ce:2e:b8/00:00:06:00:00/40 tag 5 cdb 0x0 data 32768 out
res 40/00:08:80:fc:34/00:00:04:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
ata1.00: cmd 61/40:30:0e:2f:b8/00:00:06:00:00/40 tag 6 cdb 0x0 data 32768 out
res 40/00:08:80:fc:34/00:00:04:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
ata1.00: cmd 61/40:38:4e:2f:b8/00:00:06:00:00/40 tag 7 cdb 0x0 data 32768 out
res 40/00:08:80:fc:34/00:00:04:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
ata1.00: cmd 61/40:40:8e:2f:b8/00:00:06:00:00/40 tag 8 cdb 0x0 data 32768 out
res 40/00:08:80:fc:34/00:00:04:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
ata1: soft resetting port
ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata1: EH complete

I've attached hdparm -I output.

Thanks,

Jeff Garrett

/dev/sda:

ATA device, with non-removable media
Model Number: WDC WD1500ADFD-00NLR1
Serial Number: WD-WMAP41106896
Firmware Revision: 20.07P20
Standards:
Used: ATA/ATAPI-7 published, ANSI INCITS 397-2005
Supported: 7 6 5 4
Configuration:
Logical max current
cylinders 16383 16383
heads 16 16
sectors/track 63 63
--
CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064
LBA user addressable sectors: 268435455
LBA48 user addressable sectors: 293046768
device size with M = 1024*1024: 143089 MBytes
device size with M = 1000*1000: 150039 MBytes (150 GB)
Capabilities:
LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
Queue depth: 32
Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, with device specific minimum
R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 16
Recommended acoustic management value: 128, current value: 254
DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
Enabled Supported:
* SMART feature set
Security Mode feature set
* Power Management feature set
Write cache
* Look-ahead
* Host Protected Area feature set
* WRITE_BUFFER command
* READ_BUFFER command
* NOP cmd
* DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
Power-Up In Standby feature set
* SET_FEATURES required to spinup after power up
* SET_MAX security extension
* Automatic Acoustic Management feature set
* 48-bit Address feature set
* Device Configuration Overlay feature set
* Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE
* FLUSH_CACHE_EXT
* SMART error logging
* SMART self-test
* General Purpose Logging feature set
* 64-bit World wide name
* SATA-I signaling speed (1.5Gb/s)
* Native Command Queueing (NCQ)
* Phy event counters
DMA Setup Auto-Activate optimization
* Software settings preservation
* SMART Command Transport (SCT) feature set
* SCT Long Sector Access (AC1)
* SCT LBA Segment Access (AC2)
* SCT Error Recovery Control (AC3)
* SCT Features Control (AC4)
* SCT Data Tables (AC5)
unknown 206[12]
Security:
Master password revision code = 65534
supported
not enabled
not locked
frozen
not expired: security count
not supported: enhanced erase
Checksum: correct