Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 04:49:08 GMT From: steve@Watt.COM (Steve Watt) To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of ATA tagging in Stable Message-ID: <HCLK1w.EwM@Watt.COM> References: <20030329184236.71A3C69@ptavv.es.net>
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In article <20030329184236.71A3C69@ptavv.es.net>, Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> wrote: >I have a P3 system running STABLE built on March 7. I installed a new >IBM DTLA disk drive and was distressed at its slowness, so I tried >turning on tagging to see if that would help. It seemed to, until... > >3 AM when my periodic tasks started running. The system lost all disk >access and logged lots of errors (a few of which I added to the end of >this message). This combination worked beautifully until the ATA MFC just after 4.5, and it has since been declared that those IBM drives don't do tagging correctly. Since I've got a semi-production server with the DTLAs in it, I gave up on tagging, just using UDMA, it's good enough. -- Steve Watt KD6GGD PP-ASEL-IA ICBM: 121W 56' 57.8" / 37N 20' 14.9" Internet: steve @ Watt.COM Whois: SW32 Free time? There's no such thing. It just comes in varying prices...
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