On Nov 9, 2007 12:32 AM, Robert Hancock <hancockr@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Luca Tettamanti wrote: > > On Nov 7, 2007 1:55 PM, Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Florian La Roche wrote: > >>> Hello all, > >>> > >>> I've taking email addresses from the last NCQ blacklist changes going > >>> into the kernel. > >>> This Fujitsu drive also gives me spurious command completions. Detailed > >>> output also available at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=366181. > >>> > >>> Let me know if you need more info or anything else. > >>> > >>> --- drivers/ata/libata-core.c > >>> +++ drivers/ata/libata-core.c > >>> @@ -4222,6 +4222,7 @@ > >>> { "WDC WD740ADFD-00NLR1", NULL, ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ, }, > >>> { "WDC WD3200AAJS-00RYA0", "12.01B01", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ, }, > >>> { "FUJITSU MHV2080BH", "00840028", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ, }, > >>> + { "FUJITSU MHW2160BJ G2", NULL, ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ }, > >>> { "ST9120822AS", "3.CLF", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ, }, > >>> { "ST9160821AS", "3.CLF", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ, }, > >>> { "ST9160821AS", "3.ALD", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ, }, > >> Thanks. We're currently trying to find out what's actually going on > >> with all these drives. At first, drives which got blacklisted aren't > >> many and made sense (had other problems with NCQ, etc..) but with new > >> generation drives from many vendors showing the same symptom, we aren't > >> too sure now. > > > > Is there a way to tell whether Windows is using NCQ or not? I checked > > the system log (or whatever it's called) on my notebook and is clean > > but I'm not sure it's using NCQ (I don't even know if it'd log > > spurious completions somewhere). > > Which driver is installed for the SATA controller in Windows, the > chipset-manufacturer-provided AHCI driver or the default Microsoft > driver? You'd need the AHCI driver installed for NCQ to be used. I'm aware of this. I'm using the AHCI driver (from Intel). Still, I don't know if it's really used or limited like under Linux. Luca - 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
