Re: What still uses the block layer?

t task on the back-burner. I remember being told that I didn't understand the problem when I suggested using ide-scsi for everything and just hiding the transport. I get great pleasure from having been (mostly) right on that one. I still have old systems running ZIP drives as scsi...

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

shown before, with almost all ol'good SCSI drives TCQ helps alot - up to 2x the difference and more - with multiple I/O threads) Well, what the driver does is minimal. It just passes through all the commands to the harddrive. After all, NCQ/TCQ gives the harddrive more responsibility reg

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

7,20. I looked at these before, did you really run with a chunk size of just under 16GB, or does "15696M" have some inobvious meaning? -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the

Re: [patch 0/4] SATA power savings patches (ALPM)

eems it an appropriate time to do this. In addition, the patch was changed to allow either HIPM or DIPM as a prerequisite for enabling ALPM, rather than just using HIPM. I suspect these changes would be useful for servers as well, extending run time when a failover to UPS is detected. -- Bill Davids

Re: [Paranoia] program cdparanoia not setting count and/or reply_len properly

roblems. Once the problem with error reporting is fixed (and that may not be the fix Alan has devised) by someone then paranoia can get rid of the egregious hack. I've expanded the recipients list, perhaps we'll get a status on (a) if the fix Alan has will cause correct error repo