2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Tejun Heo commit ac70a964b0e22a95af3628c344815857a01461b7 upstream. Some recent Seagate harddrives have firmware bug which causes FLUSH CACHE to timeout under certain circumstances if NCQ is being used. This can be worked around by disabling NCQ and fixed by updating the firmware. Implement ATA_HORKAGE_FIRMWARE_UPDATE and blacklist these devices. The wiki page has been updated to contain information on this issue. http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Known_issues Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/libata.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c @@ -2428,6 +2428,13 @@ int ata_dev_configure(struct ata_device } } + if ((dev->horkage & ATA_HORKAGE_FIRMWARE_WARN) && print_info) { + ata_dev_printk(dev, KERN_WARNING, "WARNING: device requires " + "firmware update to be fully functional.\n"); + ata_dev_printk(dev, KERN_WARNING, " contact the vendor " + "or visit http://ata.wiki.kernel.org.\n"); + } + return 0; err_out_nosup: @@ -3971,6 +3978,20 @@ static const struct ata_blacklist_entry { "ST380817AS", "3.42", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ }, { "ST3160023AS", "3.42", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ }, + /* Seagate NCQ + FLUSH CACHE firmware bug */ + { "ST31500341AS", "9JU138", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ | + ATA_HORKAGE_FIRMWARE_WARN }, + { "ST31000333AS", "9FZ136", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ | + ATA_HORKAGE_FIRMWARE_WARN }, + { "ST3640623AS", "9FZ164", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ | + ATA_HORKAGE_FIRMWARE_WARN }, + { "ST3640323AS", "9FZ134", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ | + ATA_HORKAGE_FIRMWARE_WARN }, + { "ST3320813AS", "9FZ182", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ | + ATA_HORKAGE_FIRMWARE_WARN }, + { "ST3320613AS", "9FZ162", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ | + ATA_HORKAGE_FIRMWARE_WARN }, + /* Blacklist entries taken from Silicon Image 3124/3132 Windows driver .inf file - also several Linux problem reports */ { "HTS541060G9SA00", "MB3OC60D", ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ, }, --- a/include/linux/libata.h +++ b/include/linux/libata.h @@ -364,6 +364,7 @@ enum { ATA_HORKAGE_IPM = (1 << 7), /* Link PM problems */ ATA_HORKAGE_IVB = (1 << 8), /* cbl det validity bit bugs */ ATA_HORKAGE_STUCK_ERR = (1 << 9), /* stuck ERR on next PACKET */ + ATA_HORKAGE_FIRMWARE_WARN = (1 << 12), /* firwmare update warning */ /* DMA mask for user DMA control: User visible values; DO NOT renumber */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/