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Date:      Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:59:59 +0800
From:      "Da better Half" <tayerv@team.ph.inter.net>
To:        "Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: wc, tagging &c (not a troll ;)
Message-ID:  <018501c114b5$e4ef2b00$4b443dca@jett>
References:  <20010725070644.A14953@snark.ptc.spbu.ru>

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>
To: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:06 AM
Subject: wc, tagging &c (not a troll ;)


> In my box I have a Quantum drive and an IBM DTLA-307015 drive.  The
> latter supports tagged queuing, as ata(4) tells and from the
> discussion(s) on this list my understanding is that tags are safe,
> unlike write caching (since we sometimes have random power glitches, I
> really don't want to turn wc on).
> 
> However code in ata-disk in ad_attach does
> 
>     if (ata_wc || ata_tags)
>         turn on wc
> 
>     if (ata_tags && ad_tagsupported(adp))
>         turn on tagging
> 
> This makes me nervous as at the first glance it looks like it will
> enable wc on my quantum drive even though it doesn't do tagging.
> Shouldn't it be:
> 
>     do_tagging = ata_tags && ad_tagsupported(adp);
> 
>     if (ata_wc || do_tagging)
>         turn on wc
> 
>     if (ata_tags && do_tagging)
>         turn on tagging
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> SY, Uwe
> -- 
> uwe@ptc.spbu.ru                         |       Zu Grunde kommen
> http://www.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/            |       Ist zu Grunde gehen
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