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Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 23:51:30 +0100 (CET)
From: Sasi Peter <sape@iq.rulez.org>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
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Subject: Re: ATA-4, ATA-5 TCQ status
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On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Jens Axboe wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 27 2000, Sasi Peter wrote:
> > > implementation listed in the specs Linux might as well not support it :)
> > > It's simply not worth it.
> > But seriously, how come?
> > I thought they just somewhat like copied the SCSI implementation...
> I wish they would have, and based it on atapi. But they didn't...
> Basically it requires you to poll for completion of tags with a
> service command.

On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 27 2000, Sasi Peter wrote:
> > > I would like to ask if the tagged command queueing capability in the
> > > decent ATA standards is utilized in the linux IDE driver (2.2 2.2ide
> >   ^^^^^^
> > > patches, or 2.4 maybe...)?

Ok, so anybody knows a multichannel adapter? At least 4 channels?
Andre? Where do I get one? Where does the ATA revolution start?

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SaPE - Peter, Sasi - mailto:sape@sch.hu - http://sape.iq.rulez.org/


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