From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 10 21:27:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8290514D9A for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 21:27:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA14474; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 15:56:47 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id PAA26512; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 15:56:47 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990311155647.R490@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 15:56:47 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Mike O'Brien" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Second try: PLEASE! What are "tagged openings"? References: <199903110241.SAA00361@caern.limax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199903110241.SAA00361@caern.limax.com>; from Mike O'Brien on Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 06:41:22PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 10 March 1999 at 18:41:22 -0800, Mike O'Brien wrote: > My new 3.1-RELEASE kernel says, vis-a-vis my "ahc" controller: > > (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): tagged openings now 38 > (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): tagged openings now 37 > (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): tagged openings now 36 > > The numbers count down with each period of high disk activity. > > WHAT THE @#$@$%!%$# DOES THIS MEAN????? These are the maximum number of concurrent operations that CAM will attempt to perform against your drive. > Do I have a "quirky" drive? WHAT??? Maybe. Lots of drives are quirky. I didn't know that any went over 32, but certainly there's nothing to be worried about. I must confess, though, that the messages get on my nerves too. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message