Re: [PATCH] libata: add NCQ blacklist entries from Silicon Image Windows driver

[Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>]

Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
> On Feb 21, 2007, at 10:57 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > > +    /* The following blacklist entries are taken from the Windows
> > > +       driver .inf files for the Silicon Image 3124 and 3132. */
> > > +    { "Maxtor 7B250S0",    "BANC1B70",    ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ, },
> [...]
> > Do we have information that these drives fail on non-SiI controllers?
>
> At least tangentially related:
>
> On one of my boxes (running 2.6.18-1.2869 from Fedora) I have a couple 
> of other Maxtor drives that didn't like NCQ.   They are on a JMicron 
> 20360/20363 (ahci driver).  (There's also a Promise 300 TX4 card in the 
> box and an Intel ICH8 that shows up with ata_piix).
>
> model and (partial) firmware revision of the drives:
> Maxtor 7V300F0  VA11
> Maxtor 7B300S0  BANC
>
> Until I disabled NCQ I got gazillions of messages like the ones below 
> and absymal performance.
>
>   - ask
>
>
> ata5: spurious interrupt (irq_stat 0x8 active_tag -84148995 sactive 0xf)

Sounds like those are some that we should be blacklisting as well, 
unless Eric has a good reason why not (CCing). Can you provide the full 
firmware revision strings from those drives, i.e. from "hdparm -I"?

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