Subject: Re: UVM/other problems for desktop users in current?
To: Oleg Polyanski <Oleg.Polianski@team.telstraclear.co.nz>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: current-users
Date: 12/19/2002 13:23:15
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 03:21:02PM +1300, Oleg Polyanski wrote:
> Daniel> The main reason is that there's only one outstanding
> Daniel> operation to the disk at once.
>
> This isn't true, most modern IDE hard drive have the tagged
> queueing ability.
I chose my words carefully.
There is only one outstanding command - even if the drive happens
to support tagged queuing, we don't use it, as I went on to say in
the same email.
--
Dan.