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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:25:10 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Aaron Tiensivu <mojomofo@mojomofo.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] IDE TCQ #4
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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.. :)

Mark Hahn wrote this little script to detect support for TCQ, modified
by me to not use the hdX symlinks.

-- 
Jens Axboe


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#!/usr/bin/perl

# bit 1 (TCQ) and 14 (word is valid) must be set to indicate tcq support
$mask = (1 << 1) | (1 << 14);

# bit 15 must be cleared too
$bits = $mask | (1 << 15);

# mail me the results!
$addr = "linux-tcq\@kernel.dk";

foreach $i (</proc/ide/ide*>) {
	foreach $d (<$i/hd*>) {
		@words = split(/\s/,`cat $d/identify`);
		$w83 = hex($words[83]);
		if (!(($w83 & $bits) ^ $mask)) {
			$model = `cat $d/model`;
			push(@goodies, $model);
			chomp($model);
			print "$d ($model) supports TCQ\n";
		}
	}
}

if ($addr && $#goodies) {
	open(M, "| mail -s TCQ-report $addr");
	print M @goodies;
	close(M);
}

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