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Date:      Thu, 31 Aug 2000 10:43:49 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        John Turner <john@drexeltech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Tagged Queueing question
Message-ID:  <20000831104349.E29115@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20000830083308.00b197f8@mail.johnturner.com>; from john@drexeltech.com on Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 08:35:41AM -0400
References:  <4.3.2.7.0.20000830083308.00b197f8@mail.johnturner.com>

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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.

Greg
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