Re: 2.5.69, IDE TCQ can't be enabled

Henning P. Schmiedehausen (hps@intermeta.de)
Wed, 14 May 2003 13:30:27 +0000 (UTC)


Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> writes:

>On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 08:40:59AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > Weird. Mine doesn't seem to assert it, nor does the identify page
> > > indicate it's supported. Maybe I have a broken drive firmware.
> >
> > Then the linux code won't work on it, have you tried? I've tried a lot
> > of different IBM models, they all do service interrupts just fine.

>bug in the firmware version on Jeffs drives perhaps ?

As he has an old firmware on the drive (which he really should
upgrade, else it will eat his drive sooner or later), this might well
be possible.

> > I can confirm that. This drive Model=IBM-DTLA-307045, FwRev=TX6OA60A,
> > SerialNo=YMCYMT3Y229 has eaten my filesystem with TCQ on 2.5.69

Most current I got my fingers on is A6AA (last four letters of the
FwRev). I'd recommend an update. Even better: Sell the drive on eBay.

Regards
Henning

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