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Date:      Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:49:46 -0400
From:      Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com>
To:        "'Kenneth D. Merry'" <ken@kdm.org>, Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com>
Cc:        "'aic7xxx@freebsd.org'" <aic7xxx@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Ongoing U320 AIC7902 Seagate ST318453LW issues, SCB timed out
Message-ID:  <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C853370274221F@mail.sandvine.com>

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> From: Kenneth D. Merry [mailto:ken@kdm.org]
> 
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 13:43:55 -0400, Don Bowman wrote:
> > Just to confirm i'm talking about the same thing...
> > my seagate device reports 255 tagged openings:
> > 
> > # camcontrol tags 0:0:0
> > (pass0:ahd0:0:0:0): device openings: 255
> > 
> > but seagate indicates the device has only support for
> > 64. Am i reading something different here?
> 
> You'll see 255 openings until we get a queue full response 
> from the drive.
> Then it'll go down to however many transactions we had 
> outstanding when the
> queue full happened.
> 
> If you want a little more information (e.g. how many transactions are
> outstanding at a given moment), try:
> 
> camcontrol tags da0 -v
> 
> Ken

So i've reconfirmed, the drive supports a max of 64 tags.
under load I see the max go down to 252, how can that make
sense? under severe load it may go lower, to e.g. 33.

???



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