Hi I recently got 2 Seagate 8Tb drives. 'dd' over whole disc ran fine. Then I inserted into my RAID and started rebalancing. I've got following error almost immediately: ata5.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED ata5.00: cmd 61/00:e0:80:e7:75/1d:00:9f:00:00/40 tag 28 ncq 3801088 out res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata5.00: status: { DRDY } ata5.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED ata5.00: cmd 61/80:e8:80:04:76/1d:00:9f:00:00/40 tag 29 ncq 3866624 out res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata5.00: status: { DRDY } ata5: hard resetting link ata5: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) ata5.00: ACPI cmd ef/10:06:00:00:00:00 (SET FEATURES) succeeded ata5.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:00 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out ata5.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:00 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out ata5.00: ACPI cmd ef/10:06:00:00:00:00 (SET FEATURES) succeeded ata5.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:00 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out ata5.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:00 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata5.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 ata5.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 ata5.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 ata5.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 ata5.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 ata5.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 ata5.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 ata5.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 ata5.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 ata5.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 ata5.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 Discs are from different batches and I was a bit surprised to see identical failures at the same time. I was ready send the drives to RMA but then I discovered this thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=199351 A lot of people report the same problem as mine. It was found that the problem appears only starting from 3.19, with kernel 3.18 or Windows these drives work fine. It is recommended to revert this change 9162c6579bf90b3f5ddb7e3a6c6fa946c1b4cbeb "libata: Implement ATA_DEV_ZAC" that seems fixes the issue. There is also the same issue reported at kernel.org https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93581 This issue is extremely annoying and makes negative SMR drives user experience. Had anybody look at this bug? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html