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Date:      Wed, 25 Jun 1997 10:58:43 +0200
From:      Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ncrcontrol
Message-ID:  <19970625105843.31418@mi.uni-koeln.de>
In-Reply-To: <199706250119.KAA26979@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Wed, Jun 25, 1997 at 10:49:41AM %2B0930
References:  <19970624201859.14377@mi.uni-koeln.de> <199706250119.KAA26979@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>

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On Jun 25, Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> wrote:
> Stefan Esser stands accused of saying:
> > On Jun 24, Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> wrote:
> > > This is with a kernel from june, 20 and a freshly rebuilt ncrcontrol:
> > > 
> > > bash# ncrcontrol -u 1 -t 2 -s tags=0
> > > bash# ncrcontrol -u 1 -i
> > > T:L  Vendor   Device           Rev  Speed   Max Wide Tags
> > > 2:0  MICROP   4110-09TBCU0322J HT01  10.0  10.0   8    4
> > > 
> > > It silently ignores the tags=0 parameter :-(
> > 
> > Ummm, that's bad ... 
> > 
> > Seems I broke this when I modified the driver 
> > to respect the "NOTAGS" quirk in scsiconf.c ... :(
> > 
> > If your drive does not work reliably with tags
> > enabled, then we should add it to scsiconf.c !
> 
> Please do _not_ add this drive as not supporting tags!

Ok. I was just not sure, why somebody wanted to disable
tags for that drive. There definitely is a problem with
dynamically adjusting the number of tags, and I know 
that I introduced it with some other changes, recently :(

> silver:~>ncrcontrol
> T:L  Vendor   Device           Rev  Speed   Max Wide Tags
> 0:0  MICROP   4110-09TBCU0322L HT01  10.0  10.0   8    4
> 2:0  CDC      94181-15         0293     ?   5.0   ?    -
> 3:0  CDC      94181-15         0293     ?   5.0   ?    -
> 4:0  CDC      94181-15         0293     ?   5.0   ?    -
> 5:0  CDC      94181-15         0293     ?   5.0   ?    -
> 6:0  iomega   jaz 1GB          H.62  10.0  10.0   8    4
> 
> This configuration is _very_ stable, and both the 4110 and the Jaz seem
> to handle tags Just Fine.  Of course if I could make the SCSI-1 disks
> do TCQ as well, I'd be even happier 8)

Well, those CDC drives are 1800RPM, 1MB/s, if I
remember correctly ?

Good drives at their time, but even tagged commands
won't hide those ten years that went by, meanwhile :)

Regards, STefan



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