Linux 7.2-rc6 Working Around Several Buggy Western Digital SATA Drives
Linux 7.2-rc6 Working Around Several Buggy Western Digital SATA Drives Written by Michael Larabel in Hardware on 1 August 2026 at 06:49 AM EDT. Add A Comment Merged ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc6 kernel test release are several ATA fixes that include a number of device-specific workarounds for some Western Digital SATA drives that have been failing to work on recent versions of the Linux kernel. This week's batch of ATA fixes end up force disabling Link Power Management (LPM) for several Western Digital drives that have not been functioning properly with the Linux kernel out-of-the-box due to power management behavior.
- ▪Linux 7.2-rc6 Working Around Several Buggy Western Digital SATA Drives Written by Michael Larabel in Hardware on 1 August 2026 at 06:49 AM EDT.
- ▪Add A Comment Merged ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc6 kernel test release are several ATA fixes that include a number of device-specific workarounds for some Western Digital SATA drives that have been failing to work on recent versions of
- ▪This week's batch of ATA fixes end up force disabling Link Power Management (LPM) for several Western Digital drives that have not been functioning properly with the Linux kernel out-of-the-box due to power management behavior.
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Linux 7.2-rc6 Working Around Several Buggy Western Digital SATA Drives Written by Michael Larabel in Hardware on 1 August 2026 at 06:49 AM EDT. Add A Comment Merged ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc6 kernel test release are several ATA fixes that include a number of device-specific workarounds for some Western Digital SATA drives that have been failing to work on recent versions of the Linux kernel. This week's batch of ATA fixes end up force disabling Link Power Management (LPM) for several Western Digital drives that have not been functioning properly with the Linux kernel out-of-the-box due to power management behavior. Since last year there was a kernel.org bug report over the SATA bus going offline after a while.
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