From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Feb 10 8:38:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.bna.bellsouth.net (mail1.bna.bellsouth.net [205.152.150.13]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 895924092 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 08:38:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from veager (host-216-78-4-136.jan.bellsouth.net [216.78.4.136]) by mail1.bna.bellsouth.net (3.3.5alt/0.75.2) with SMTP id LAA28679; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 11:37:41 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <000901bf73e5$25ac0a00$88044ed8@siteplus.net> From: "Jim Weeks" To: "wellsian" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Tagged Queueing Enabled Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 11:37:35 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanks, I was puzzled because I had never seen this message, and I check them every day. > It's good. It's a SCSI thing. Basically, with drivers that support it, the > drives are able to grab things more efficiently. > > Given these requests for data all over a drive: > > Inside track > Outside track > Inside track > Outside track > etc. > > The drive will gather the data in other than command sequence. e.g. Inside > Inside Outside Outside. I'm simplifying. > > The derived benefit should be highly driver dependent, meaning not all > cards will take advantage of the feature equally. You might want to check > the scsi list archives. > > Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message