[mythtv-users] 8T Seagate Archive: my experience

Warpme warpme at o2.pl
Sat Jul 11 13:47:01 UTC 2015


On 11/07/15 13:03, Doug Lytle wrote:
> Warpme wrote:
>>
>> Summarizing: for me this drive is simple unfinished product and I 
>> STRONGLY suggest NOT buying this model. 
>
> The link that I found for SMR and Linux would indicate that it's still 
> being worked out on how to handle them:
>
> https://lwn.net/Articles/637035/
>
> Doug
>
>
Yeah. But model in question is Drive Managed type of SMR so host not 
requires any functionality to properly operate with this drive.
Sure - there is place for host optimizations for better performance of 
Drive Managed SMR drives.
But situations when I have stalls on SATA handshakes because of hanging 
SATA slave means probably bug in drive firmware....
Sad about this.




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