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Date:      Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:13:50 -0700
From:      Fred Condo <fred@condo.chico.ca.us>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        John Turner <john@drexeltech.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Tagged Queueing question
Message-ID:  <20000831131350.F2264@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us>
In-Reply-To: <20000831104349.E29115@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 10:43:49AM %2B0930
References:  <4.3.2.7.0.20000830083308.00b197f8@mail.johnturner.com> <20000831104349.E29115@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 10:43:49AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 30 August 2000 at  8:35:41 -0400, John Turner wrote:
> >
> > This message showed up in one my server's security check output
> > today.  I've never seen it before.  Is it something I need to worry
> > about?  The server was rebooted yesterday, after about 2 months of uptime.
> >
> >> da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0
> >> da1: <IBM DNES-309170W SAH0> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
> >> da1: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 30, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
> >> da1: 8748MB (17916240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1115C)
> 
> Tagged queueing is a technique where the driver issues multiple
> requests to the controller, and the controller automatically continues
> with the next request after finishing the first, without needing
> intervention by the driver.  This improves performance.  There's
> nothing to worry about.

Unless you have certain seagate drives. There was a discussion of
seagate firmware bugs recently on -questions or -stable. That bug bit
me until I disabled write-through on the scsi bios and used camcontrol
to turn off tagged queueing at boot time. The original questioner's
IBM drive should be okay AFAIK.
-- 
Fred Condo + fred@condo.chico.ca.us
Not since Tom Hanks won an Oscar has there been that much acting in
Philadelphia. -- Sen. Joe Lieberman, about the Republican Convention.


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