Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 19:17:24 -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.4.33.0105061916000.1368-100000@eggplant.frontier.net> In-Reply-To: <139857383021.20010506141709@buz.ch>
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On Sun, 6 May 2001, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hello Charlie, > > Sunday, May 06, 2001, 1:53:20 AM, you wrote: > >> IBM DLTA-307030 Ultra ATA drive (tags/no WC vs. no tags/WC). With > neither > >> option, it is terrible, of course. > > 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? Of course, I should read all of my E-mail before responding. From other messages on freebsd-stable today: TCQ also turns on a -form- of write caching, it may not be quite the same as normal, but it still does, and should probably be considered not-totally safe. Bah. Sorry. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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