From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 6 17:50:26 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 958C516A4CE for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 17:50:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-03-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B195F43D2F for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 17:50:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jason@ec.rr.com) Received: from BARTON (cpe-065-184-201-054.ec.rr.com [65.184.201.54]) j26HoLkc016407 for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 12:50:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:59:15 +0000 From: Jason Henson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <42298D68.705@telia.com> In-Reply-To: <42298D68.705@telia.com> (from homebell@telia.com on Sat Mar 5 05:43:52 2005) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.2.6 Message-Id: <1110131955l.43716l.0l@BARTON> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: Re: ATA Tagged Queuing? (2nd attempt to get an answer) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:50:26 -0000 On 03/05/05 05:43:52, Kjell B. wrote: > I sent the below question a month ago, but received no answer. =20 > Therefore, I resend it in the hope of getting one now. >=20 > ---------- >=20 > I'm considering turning on Tagged Command Queuing in my ATA system. =20 > My > disks are all Hitachi 7K250 (two HDS722512VLAT80 and one > HDS722516VLAT80) which according to Hitachi support this feature =20 > (queue > depth =3D 32). >=20 > However, I read in > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-July/007378.html > that there may be problems doing this and not really improving =20 > performance. >=20 > Is that recommendation still valid or should I go for it? >=20 > My uname: > [homebell] ~> uname -a > FreeBSD homebell.dyndns.org 4.10-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 =20 > #0: > Mon Oct 18 21:48:34 CEST 2004 > homebell@homebell.dyndns.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HOMEBELLapmipfw =20 > i386 >=20 >--=20 > Kjell >=20 > _______________________________________________ Iread some where FreeBSD only supported ibm drives for that, but then =20 all support was throuwn out because nobody used it. If you want =20 performance try a NCQ SATA II drive. If you only have ATA TCQ then get =20 a raptor for max performance. If it is a desktop then leave it off, =20 TCQ is a server feature and slows down normal desktop workloads. =20 www.storagereview.com