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Date:      Tue, 8 Apr 2003 22:43:25 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, sos@spider.deepcore.dk, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, sos@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-all.c ata-all.h ata-chipset.cata-dma.c ata-pci.c ata-pci.h
Message-ID:  <20030408204325.GA10968@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20030408202308.GA49094@tara.freenix.org>
References:  <20030408172555.GA9572@freebie.xs4all.nl> <22238.1049823278@critter.freebsd.dk> <20030408202308.GA49094@tara.freenix.org>

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On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 10:23:08PM +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Poul-Henning Kamp:
> >    Tagged queueing:
> > 	Ability to reduce transaction latency by sending more than one
> > 	request to the drive at a time.  The request may be handled out
> > 	of order by the drive.
> > 	(A good thing!)
> 
> Except for softupdates which rely on its own ordering of writes...

SCSI has a Force Media Access bit somewhere that is supposed to ensure the
written data has indeed hit the platter. ENOCLUE on ATA.

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