Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Jul 1998 15:45:07 -0500 | From | Doug Ledford <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.111: IDE DMA disabled? |
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Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 07:04:05PM +0200, Gerard Roudier wrote: > > > Donnot know about the cheesy Fireballs, but the Atlases used to > > return QUEUE FULL even sometimes with 0 command disconnected when > > they are flooded with short IOs and write caching is enabled. > > The fireball I have doesn't support tagged queueing.
Older Fireballs don't support tagged queueing. Newer Fireballs support it, but have fixed tagged queue depths (8 for the Stratus and 15 for the Tempest). However, the Tempest firmware will corrupt itself and become totally useless if you keep 15 commands open for the majority of the time on an extended basis. The drive will require a complete power cycle before it will come back to life. The Atlas drives also have a fixed maximum queue depth of 32 commands, but will return QUEUE_FULL for conditions other than QUEUE_FULL if it simply isn't capable of taking another command at the time. FWIW, I like the Atlas and Capella drives, the Flakyball drives should be burned at a stake though.
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