Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:27:53 -0500 | From | Ric Wheeler <> | Subject | Re: sata errors with Seagate 1.5TB on AMD 780G/SB700 motherboard |
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Kasper Sandberg wrote: > 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.. >
I don't actually have one of these drives, so I don't have any updates, sorry.
There was a recent patch to correctly calculate sector numbers for these disks, but I am not sure that this was the same issue you saw...
ric
> >> 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). >>>> >>>> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >> > >
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