[PATCH] Maxtor 6B250S0/BANC1B70 hangs with NCQ

I've seen this several times on this drive, completely reproducible.

Once it has hung, power needs to be cut from the drive to recover it, a
simple reboot is not enough.  So I'd suggest disabling NCQ on this
drive.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
index f1f595f..ddb3909 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
@@ -3361,6 +3361,8 @@ static const struct ata_blacklist_entry ata_device_blacklist [] = {
        { "FUJITSU MHT2060BH",  NULL,           ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ },
        /* NCQ is broken */
        { "Maxtor 6L250S0",     "BANC1G10",     ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ },
+       /* NCQ hard hangs device under heavier load, needs hard power cycle */
+       { "Maxtor 6B250S0",     "BANC1B70",     ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ },
 
        /* Devices with NCQ limits */