From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 6 18:11:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.frontier.net (frontier.net [199.45.141.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EB6B37B423 for ; Sun, 6 May 2001 18:11:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cewatts@frontier.net) Received: from eggplant.frontier.net (cewatts.static.frontier.net [199.45.201.52]) by mail.frontier.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03C7D3EE824; Sun, 6 May 2001 19:11:40 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 19:14:21 -0600 (Mountain Daylight Time) From: Charlie Watts To: Gabriel Ambuehl Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re[2]: soft update should be default In-Reply-To: <139857383021.20010506141709@buz.ch> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: cewatts@newmail.frontier.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 6 May 2001, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hello Charlie, > > Sunday, May 06, 2001, 1:53:20 AM, you wrote: > > I see the same behaviour on one of those disks, too. But - aren't IBM's > > DTLA-series disks the only IDE drives that support TCQ? > > [ It's a -very- SCSI-feeling feature, in my mind. ] > > It was about time this was implemented in IDE disk as this takes them > nearer to the ridiculously overpriced SCSI stuff. While I've always > been a lover of IBM drives, this feature is really cool. > > Is it on by default if you use DTLA disks or do I need to activate it > specifically, BTW? In /boot/loader.conf: hw.ata.tags="1" I have several other random stupid IDE drives in this machine, too, and don't notice any adverse behaviour. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message