Re: sata errors with Seagate 1.5TB on AMD 780G/SB700 motherboard

From: Phillip O'Donnell
Date: Wed Oct 29 2008 - 16:52:20 EST


Hi Ric,

Not too sure about that - I run with XFS, which announces that it
disables the barriers on my devices (I use LVM on top of them) but
still get the same issue... Unless I've misunderstood your comment?

Cheers,
Phillip

> I suspect that the drive is simply choking on the barrier related cache
> flushing that we do - that seemed to be the MacOS error as well. The windows
> comment suggested that windows had an hba/driver bug (most likely unrelated
> to this).
>
> If you want to avoid the issue until they fix the drive, you could run fast
> and dangerous (mount without barriers on) or slow and safe (disable the
> write cache).
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