Marco Schuster wrote: > Hi all, > > I use a WDC WD1600BEVS-2 SATA drive (160GB). > The controller is a standard Intel ICH8 chipset. > During high disk load (fsck, large file copies) the system or the > process (mostly both) lock up and resume some secs later. In dmesg for > every of those breaks this appears: > > ata3.00: exception Emask 0x2 SAct 0x8001 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > ata3.00: spurious completions during NCQ issue=0x0 SAct=0x8001 FIS=004040a1:00004000 [] > Someone other than me also has this problem with this disk, see > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118789093418142&w=2 for details. > xingu on freenode/#debian suggested me to do echo 1 > > /sys/block/sdX/device/queue_depth, which solved these problems for one > session and to email you to put this drive/controller combo on the NCQ > blacklist. Marco, please see http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=119707355016060&w=2 before adding more entries to the blacklist... /mjt - 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
