INFRA Signal 107
Linux 7.2-rc6 Working Around Several Buggy Western Digital SATA Drives
WHY IT MATTERS
If you build or operate systems using affected Western Digital SATA drives, this patch resolves failures introduced by recent Linux kernels. It is a concrete example of kernel updates breaking compatibility with specific hardware, requiring targeted mitigations.
Written by elseif from the cluster below · every claim links back to a sourceThe three things worth knowing
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Linux 7.2-rc6 introduces ATA fixes for several buggy Western Digital SATA drives.
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The affected drives have been failing to work correctly on recent Linux kernel versions.
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The solution relies on device-specific workarounds rather than a general ATA subsystem change.
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