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To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
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Subject: Re: iostat: tps for SCSI drives ... 
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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 17:20:15 -0700
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
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>So, what exactly does supporting 64, or 128, tags on a drive
>provide?

Since modern drives perform seek optimization and command coalescing,
it will usually result in fewer or shorter seeks and thus better
throughput.

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Justin


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