From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 30 21:10:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B44537B401 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 21:10:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from wattres.Watt.COM (wattres.watt.com [66.93.133.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B630C43F3F for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 21:10:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@Watt.COM) Received: (from steve@localhost) by wattres.Watt.COM (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h2V5A1r1020794; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 21:10:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve) From: steve@Watt.COM (Steve Watt) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test75 (Feb 13, 2001) Organization: Watt Consultants, San Jose, CA, USA Message-ID: References: <20030329184236.71A3C69@ptavv.es.net> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 04:49:08 GMT To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of ATA tagging in Stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 05:10:04 -0000 In article <20030329184236.71A3C69@ptavv.es.net>, Kevin Oberman 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...