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Date:      Wed, 25 May 2016 00:15:39 +0100
From:      Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ATA? related trouble with r300299
Message-ID:  <89aa4fa2-8e66-45e6-ec92-97dfc78c284f@multiplay.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20160524205645.GA71641@mithlond.kdm.org>
References:  <16296020.R5v2TQkD2c@asus.theweb.org.ua> <4098903.NVJrBtROzX@asus.theweb.org.ua> <20160524201733.GA71011@mithlond.kdm.org> <1940214.zTZhPdnZGe@asus.theweb.org.ua> <20160524205645.GA71641@mithlond.kdm.org>

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On 24/05/2016 21:56, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 23:54:09 +0300, Oleg V. Nauman wrote:
>> On Tuesday 24 May 2016 16:17:33 you wrote:
>>> Okay, I've got a basic idea of what may be going on.  The resets that are
>>> getting sent are triggering another probe, which then triggers a reset,
>>> which triggers a probe...and so on.
>>>
>>> So here is another patch that should work for you:
>>>
>>> https://people.freebsd.org/~ken/cam_smr_ada_patch.20160524.2.txt
>>>
>>> I have commented out the quirk for this drive, and the driver will now only
>>> start the SMR probe on drives that claim to be SMR-capable.  So, for the
>>> vast majority of drives out there right now, it won't even start the extra
>>> probe steps.
>>   It fixes this issue. I was able to boot with your latest patch.
> Great!  I'll check it in with that fix as well as a quirk entry.  That way,
> if we have other reasons later on to issue a read log, we'll know that
> it doesn't work for those drives.
Might be worth seeing if smartmontools can read the log from that drive 
before committing the quirk as a double check.

     Regards
     Steve




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