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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Advanced scsi drivers
Date: 19 Nov 1995 02:47:11 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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isdmill@gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us (David Miller) wrote:
] Is anybody working on an advanced scsi driver? When using *bsd with
] (say) an external raid controller it'd be really nice to have many
] pending IO's so you could keep all the heads moving.
]
] My understanding is that the current status is a single pending IO per
] logical device.
Your understanding is incomplete. It does not take into account
tagged command queueing (which is supported for the hardware that
supports it).
If you want RAID, run the COmpaq RAID controller. There is a
BSD driver.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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