Re: ATA TCQ problems in 2.5.59

From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (roy@karlsbakk.net)
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 08:50:59 EST

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> > but it's a flag, not a count. use CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_TCQ_DEPTH
> > if you want something other than the default depth of 1.
>
> It's a flag, correct. The default depth is 32 though, not 1. And with
> newer hdparms you can use -Q to set/query the tag depth of the drive. Be
> careful with that though, it's not too well tested. IDE TCQ in 2.5 needs
> a bit of work, I hope to do so soonish...

but shouldn't the 'echo using_tcq:32' be equivilent of hdparm -Q?

roy

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