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Date:      Sun, 6 May 2001 19:14:21 -0600 (Mountain Daylight Time)
From:      Charlie Watts <cewatts@frontier.net>
To:        Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re[2]: soft update should be default
Message-ID:  <Pine.WNT.4.33.0105061911310.1368-100000@eggplant.frontier.net>
In-Reply-To: <139857383021.20010506141709@buz.ch>

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On Sun, 6 May 2001, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:

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> 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.


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