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Date:      Thu, 02 Nov 2000 22:19:48 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
To:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: iostat: tps for SCSI drives ... 
Message-ID:  <200011030519.eA35Jma93066@aslan.scsiguy.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Nov 2000 20:51:14 -0400." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011022049320.494-100000@thelab.hub.org> 

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>I imagine this would have to be "on the drive", but can they feed back
>information for Cmd6->Cmd7 while its processing Cmd0->Cmd5?  Or is it
>purely FIFO?

That is exactly the point.  The drive does not have to handle the
transactions in FIFO order unless you specificly tell it to.  You
can do this on a per-command basis: re-order any way that is convenient,
ensure all transactions queued prior to this command complete prior to
its execution, or place this transaction at the head of the queue.

--
Justin


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