Hi, Thanks for the elaborate answer. We want to buy the drive which supports (rather than currently investigating , probably your assumption is right and our seagate does not have the required FW). Regarding the specific model , Will any of those do ? HUS151414VL3800 HUS151473VL3800 HUS151436VL3800 HUS151414VL3600 HUS151473VL3600 HUS151436VL3600 Thanks Dan Porat On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>>>> "Dan" == Dan Porat <dan.porat@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Dan> We checked with kernel 2.6.34 , Seagate Cheetah 15K and the > Dan> following HBA: LSI 9212-4i4e > > Dan> Still , no success. > > Send us the output of: > > # lsscsi -p > # sg_inq -x /dev/sdN > # sg_readcap -l /dev/sdN > > > Dan> Any Ideas? > > And you are sure that the drive is formatted with DIF? Seagate's > standard firmware doesn't support it, fwiw. It's a build-to-order > option. > > Hitachi drives support DIF out of the box. > > -- > Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- 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