Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:00:40 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com> Cc: Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CAM question 3.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <199810280500.VAA00409@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:47:54 MST." <199810280447.VAA21943@narnia.plutotech.com>
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> In article <3636A466.5222@echidna.com> you wrote: > >> This is normal. The system tries to figure out how many tags each unit > >> can support by experimentation and observation. Some disks are > >> broken here and have to be quirk'd to turn off or reduce tags. > > > > Is there some reason why these messages are desirable and need to be on by > > default? > > They help us (the SCSI developers) diagnose problems. They also give the > user an idea of the capabilities of their hardware. They also generate an awful lot of questioning traffic, which is indicating that they're not actually telling the user anything useful. I think this counts as a real-world assessment of the usefulness of the messages. > > They certainly get annoyingly voluminous at times. The following comment > > is from the freebsd-scsi archives: > > They will stop as soon as the minimum tag count is achieved. Do you reboot > your system all the time or something? Watching them count down one by one from 64 to 4 or so for a system with any number of disks is an irritating nuisance. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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