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

[Kasper Sandberg]

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 18:37 -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote:
> Phillip O'Donnell wrote:
<snip>
> I am just going based on what I read at the Seagate customer site - it 
> looks like the hang was during the processing of the ATA_CACHE_FLUSH_EXT 
> command.
> 
> New drives are routinely buggy to some degree, especially ones that jump 
> up in capacity :-)  Seagate has a well earned reputation for quality and 
> I will be surprised if they don't fix this issue soon,

Is there any new information on this? so far the only thing i can find
seems to be people reporting the issue, but no word from seagate..

> 
> Ric
> 
> >   
> >> 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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