Ricky Beam wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Doug Ledford wrote:
> >> That list already exists (sortof)  There's a list of drives with whom
> >> drivers should not probe LUNs or attempt tagged queuing.  I messed with it
> >> once to allow queuing on my Jaz drive -- it was blcklisted but works just
> >> fine. (only a few firmware versions have a problem; it's safer to always
> >> say NO!)
> >
> >More than a few versions of Jaz drive have that bug, everything with a
> >firmware version J.86 or earlier has that bug.
> 
> Yep.  But the blist doesn't check the revision (or didn't) thus all jaz
> drives end up with tag queuing disabled -- that's certainly the safe thing
> to do.  I hate the speed degradation... <grin>
> 
> Checking my machines:
> (jakolantronic/alpha)   Vendor: iomega   Model: jaz 1GB          Rev: G.72
> (dominion/x86)          Vendor: iomega   Model: jaz 1GB          Rev: J^77
> (foobar/x86)            Vendor: iomega   Model: jaz 1GB          Rev: J.83
> 
> All of those have an active queue depth of 8 and work perfectly.  I have
> a few other jaz drives not in an machines so I don't know their revisions,
> but they work fine with a queue depth of 8 as well.

Are you sure tagged queueing is actually being used on those drives?  They
should all be defective according to my information.  I would be curious to
know just how sure you are that these drives are using tagged queueing.

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