From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Sep 21 20:16:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA29733 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 20:16:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA29669 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 20:16:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA32296 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Tue, 22 Sep 1998 05:00:01 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.6.12) id XAA02617; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 23:54:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199809212154.XAA02617@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: ncr - new log messages appearing In-Reply-To: <199809212020.OAA08872@panzer.plutotech.com> from "Kenneth D. Merry" at "Sep 21, 98 02:20:59 pm" To: ken@plutotech.com (Kenneth D. Merry) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 23:54:49 +0200 (CEST) Cc: dnelson@emsphone.com, kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As Kenneth D. Merry wrote... > > That just means your drive can't handle more than 15 tagged commands at > > once. CAM's max is 64 (is there any way to raise this?), so the first > > time your system hits the disk heavily, your drive will complain about > > the number of tags it can't handle, and the kernel message will pop up. > > You can adjust the maximum by adjusting the default quirk entry in > cam_xpt.c or by putting in a specific quirk entry for your device that sets > the limit higher. Most drives don't have any more than 64 tags. I think > there are some external RAID controllers that may have more. Quite true. For example the Digital HSZ40 controllers have a pool of 300 tags, that are shared by all LUNs that are configured on the array. There is one thing that must be kept in mind for those RAID boxes: you might encounter a QUEUE FULL even when that particular LUN had no I/O outstanding. Other I/O on different LUNs in that case has used up all tags from the pool. I've seen drivers choke on this before ;-) Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message