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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 16:44:18 +0500
From: "A JOSEPH KOSHY" <koshy@india.hp.com>
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I noticed that by default we never turn on disk sorting for SCSI drives.

What would be the reason for doing so.  I understand that if a drive supports
command queueing then presorting the request list may not be effective.
However not all hardware support command queueing.

Is not sorting the disk I/Os beneficial for all SCSI drives?

Koshy
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