From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261994AbULPTOP (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:14:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262006AbULPTJG (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:09:06 -0500 Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net ([216.254.0.206]:40608 "EHLO mail6.speakeasy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261994AbULPTGt (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:06:49 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:06:33 -0600 From: John Lash To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] sata_sil.c: blacklist seagate ST380013AS Message-ID: <20041216130633.587c8ca7@homer.sarvega.com> In-Reply-To: <20041213074814.130ef57f@homer.sarvega.com> References: <20041202100304.4e8a9145@homer.sarvega.com> <20041213074814.130ef57f@homer.sarvega.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.13cvs9 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:48:14 -0600 John Lash wrote: ... > For what it's worth, I built an x86_64 kernel (2.6.9 and 2.6.10-rc3) for this > system and booted it. I didn't apply the blacklist patch yet. The system > booted fine, no complaints in the boot messages > > Performance is good and the drive appears quite stable so far. I'm going to > beat on it a bit more over the next couple of days. If there is a particular > test that would be of interest, please let me know. I'm planning to do large > reads and writes with dd and a couple of runs with bonnie. > > This might explain why some people are running Seagate drives with sata_sil > with no apparent problems. > No good. The drive got hung up yesterday with the usual errors. I reapplied the blacklist patch. so it goes. --john