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On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

> The problems that have been reported against many IBM drives stem from
> the fact that the DQUE bit is set on many OEM models.  The current SCSI
...
> drives are behaving completely within the bounds of the SCSI spec.  CAM
> handles this "problem" by honoring the DQUE bit assuming that the user
> knows what they are doing.

  Wait a second... that means that those drives don't support tags at all?
Now I'm sure that I don't want IBM drives.

Tom


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