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Quoted 56 lines · On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:21:36 -0800 (PST) [email protected] wrote:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9410

Summary: TOSHIBA MK1637GSX do spurious command completion
Product: IO/Storage
Version: 2.5
KernelVersion: 2.6.24-rc2 GIT 8c0863403f109a43d7000b4646da4818220d501f
Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux
Tree: Mainline
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P1
Component: Serial ATA
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]

Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur:
Distribution: ALTLinux Sisyphus
Hardware Environment: Dell Inspiron 1520 (see
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Dell_Inspiron_1520 for lspci and other details) Software Environment: i586 target build. src.rpm images with build config available on
http://www.unsafe.ru/lakostis/RPMS/ALTLinux/kernel-2.6.24/SRPMS.hasher/kernel-image-wks-smp-2.6.24-alt0.4.src.rpm
Problem Description:

$ dmesg
....
ata1.00: exception Emask 0x2 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
ata1.00: spurious completions during NCQ issue=0x0 SAct=0x1
FIS=004040a1:00000020
ata1.00: cmd 60/70:00:83:a6:f0/00:00:04:00:00/40 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 57344 in
         res 40/00:34:c3:a7:f0/00:00:04:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
ata1: soft resetting link
ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata1: EH complete
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 MB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support
DPO or FUA

information from smartctl:

Device Model:     TOSHIBA MK1637GSX
Serial Number:    77VBT1CRT
Firmware Version: DL040D
User Capacity:    160,041,885,696 bytes
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   7
ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is:    Sun Nov 18 18:54:33 2007 MSK
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
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Steps to reproduce:

compile recent vanilla kernel from GIT with libata support and install following drive to NCQ capable SATA controller.

Thanks. Could you please send that backlisting patch via email to

Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>
[email protected]
Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

?