Re: [PATCH v4] ata: libata: disable LPM for WDC WD20EFAX-68FB5N0 hard drives

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Hello Mikko, thanks for sharing all those details, we have some
additional information on this.

I am suspicious with hw and not with you. A quirk will affect lots of
devices and we need to be sure that we have examined the error you get
so that there is no need to revert things. FYI, I have a disk with a
quirk for no obvious reason on all hosts because nForce had NCQ
trouble with it. If a quirk gets applied usually it stays for a long
time if not forever.

Back to your case, on first look I can see that disks are in mint
condition and are running the default fw, 82.00A82. Damien is there a
newer version available?
Please run a short test to each one to ensure that everything is OK
after working for 10K+ hours and share their health log again. It is
clear that both go south at the same time so RAID array dies as
expected following that initial event. You just leave the PC on and
then you get that event on both?

Supposing you get no error at disks after all that but still disks go
offline, I would suggest to update your board fw to version 3621 and
retest. The controller-disk combo should work fine. Just to clarify
things, upon turning off LPM, you get no error at all?

Except the short form of lspci, let's get the fulll dump for SATA
controller to see its active PCI settings with:
sudo lspci -nnnnvvvvxxxxks 01:00.1

You can get it before touching anything and then with 3621 fw if you
update your board. This will pinpoint if anything has been modified
between different fw releases.

If the problem remains no matter what, a quirk is inevitable. Do we
wish to block LPM on Intel hosts while no one has reported errors? How
about a new quirk called ATA_QUIRK_NO_LPM_ON_AMD500 for 500 series ICs
or ATA_QUIRK_NO_LPM_ON_AMD similar to ATA_QUIRK_NO_LPM_ON_ATI blocking
LPM for ATI chips?

Best regards,
Ioannis




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