On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:29:08 +0100 Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS has troubles with NCQ. For example, > > unpacking a tarball on an XFS filesystem gives this: > > > > ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > > ata1.00: cmd 61/40:00:29:a3:98/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 32768 out > > res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) > > What makes you sure that is an NCQ problem ? It goes away with: echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth I have this problem only with XFS, and even with XFS it goes away mounting with "nobarrier"... -- Paolo Ornati Linux 2.6.23-rc8-ga64314e6-dirty on x86_64 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
