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On Dec 17, 2004, at 2:06 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

> With newer SATA disks, *if we supported tagged command queueing*, which
> we don't, and only with controllers that actually supported it, we 
> could
> do the right thing here.

Don't assume that SATA NCQ is a panacea.  It is still not as good as 
SCSI tagged queueing (where you have mode pages that allow you to tune 
various aspects of how the drive's queue is managed).

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>


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