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SubjectRe: [PATCH] IDE TCQ #4
On Mon, Apr 15 2002, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15 2002, Aaron Tiensivu wrote:
> > Simple question but hopefully it has a simple answer.. is there a command
> > you can issue or flag you can look for from the output of hdparm to tell if
> > your hard drive is capable of TCQ before installing the patch? I have a few
> > IBM drives that I'm sure have TCQ abilities but I don't trust them as far as
> > I can throw them (being Hungarian and cursed) but I'd like to give TCQ a
> > whirl on my WD 120GB drives that should work OK, if they support TCQ..
> >
> > Sorry if it's already been asked.. :)
>
> It has not been asked :-)
>
> You can run a IDENTIFY_DEVICE from user space with the task ioctls and
> look at word 83 -- bit 1 and 14 must be set for TCQ to be supported. If
> you give me the model identifier from the IBM drive, I can tell you if
> it has tcq or not...
>
> I'll write a small util to detect this tomorrow and send it to you + the
> list.

Duh, you can of course just look at /proc/ide/ideX/hdY/identify and
parse that. The info above is still valid for that, of course :-)

--
Jens Axboe

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