Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Feb 2007 08:53:35 +0100 | From | Paolo Ornati <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: sata timeouts with intel 82801HB on amd64 |
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On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:56:45 -0600 Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Paolo Ornati wrote: > > If mounting XFS with "nobarrier" fixes the problem it seems that more > > than one Seagate disk cannot handle the Cache Flush command while other > > commands are in fly... > > It's not allowed to overlap NCQ (FPDMA read/write) commands with any > other commands such as cache flushes. libata core guarantees that this > doesn't happen by deferring such requests until the FPDMA commands are > complete. (At least, it's supposed to..)
I didn't know that. Anyway just mounting XFS with "nobarrier" fixes the ploblem for me... so libata is buggy or I don't know!
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