On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Vishal Rao <vishalrao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2010/1/27 David Rees <drees76@xxxxxxxxx>: >> Have there been any other reports of NCQ issues with similar Crucial >> drives or Indilinx? > > I haven't personally seen reports of NCQ specific issues. I have seen > people (online) reporting "issues" with Linux distro installations > hanging/freezing etc. and some prior attempts at SMART fixes which > I also initially tried but did not work for me. > > I have tried to "publicise" this issue (forum, blog, mailing list posts) > in the hope more users may search and identify the correct issue > so that it may be better verified. > > Unfortunately, the Crucial ID string is not model-agnostic (if thats > the right term)... meaning the patch has 3 lines to ID the 3 current > models that I know of including my own 128 GB model. > > Not sure if there's a better, more generic way to match a whole group > of SSDs (same model family or various vendors) which trigger NCQ errors? How to define a group gets... Messy. Just as a data point, my own Barefoot-based SSD, an OCZ Vertex, has no NCQ-related problems whatsoever, so far as I know. Its currently hooked to a Zotac ION board, which has ahci-driven sata controllers of some sort, was previously in a Dell Studio Hybrid, where it also worked just fine. -- Jarod Wilson jarod@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
