[parisc-linux] Re: Tag Starvation on 715/100

Carlos O'Donell carlos@baldric.uwo.ca
Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:52:03 -0500


> I believe the problem is the driver is using too many tags on an old
> drive.  You want to cut the number or disable tagged queing in the
> driver for this drive.  Grant would know the details but early Seagates
> had buggy support for this feature.

I turn it off on my cluster of 715/50's because the drives of that era
just don't support it properly (e.g. random hardware lockups).

c.