From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 8 11:35:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (flutter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1289E37B446 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 11:35:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e88IZmN81787; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 20:35:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Soren Schmidt , Thierry Herbelot , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New ATA tagged queuing patch available In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Sep 2000 11:24:47 PDT." Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 20:35:48 +0200 Message-ID: <81785.968438148@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Matthew Jacob writes: >> >> Yeah :) >> >> > Any chance an older IBM drive might be supported ? >> > >> >> Well, the DTTA's say they support tagged queuing, but since the >> newer DJNA has firmware problems the DTTA probably has that >> too. To be fair I havn't tried it yet, so if you feel adventurous >> you can try to add it to the ad_tagsupported function in ata-disk.c >> and see what happens.... > >Gee. You can upgrade F/W in SCSI drives. How about ATA drives? Same thing, the trick is to get the update microcode out of IBM. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message