Re: IBM ATA Deskstars *without* tagged queueing?
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:07:27PM +0200, Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: Exactly the same thing happened here with a IC35L020AVER07-0; it did not do tagging and i bought it (and many other IBM drives) because of that. [snip] It turned out that the drive i bought had DELL firmware in it [ :- ] so they sent me an updated DELL firmware, but that did not enable tagged support. I asked for a cross update program to get IBM firmware; they had none. They wrote one :-), i got it and now my drive does tagged command queueing. And all this for a dirt cheap drive ... This is exactly the sort of thing I'd suspected. If you look at that article (URL in previous post) then as you can see they've significantly changed the manufacturing process (even made at a different plant). Are there any shortcuts to dealing with IBM OEM support or any aspects of their process? It would be helpful to know before I start the same dialogue with them re: my DeskStar 120GXP. If you could send myself as well as Soren a copy of the firmware you received in the end, too, that would be great. :-) Many thanks for unraveling this mystery! BMS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
IBM ATA Deskstars *without* tagged queueing?
Guys, I bought a Deskstar 120GXP that *doesn't* appear to do tagged queueing. I was wondering if anyone else had encountered such a thing. It's somewhat annoying; generally I buy IBM drives for precisely the reason that they're meant to support tagging. The device model ID is IC35L040AVVN07-0. There's more information about these OEM drives here: http://www.digit-life.com/articles/digests/hddreview-0602-ibm.html The kernel reports it as (note no 'tagging' keyword):- atapci0: Intel ICH ATA66 controller port 0xf000-0xf00f at device 31.1 on pci0 ad0: 39266MB IC35L040AVVN07-0 [79780/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66 I'd expect the UDMA66 as the drive is UDMA100 capable, but the board is i810 ICH, not ICH0/ICH2. uname -a: FreeBSD sulaco.dollah.com 4.7-RC FreeBSD 4.7-RC #0: Wed Sep 25 18:57:20 BST 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/SULACO i386 Any ideas? BMS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: IBM ATA Deskstars *without* tagged queueing?
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Bruce M Simpson wrote: I bought a Deskstar 120GXP that *doesn't* appear to do tagged queueing. I was wondering if anyone else had encountered such a thing. It's somewhat annoying; generally I buy IBM drives for precisely the reason that they're meant to support tagging. The device model ID is IC35L040AVVN07-0. There's more information about these OEM drives here: http://www.digit-life.com/articles/digests/hddreview-0602-ibm.html I've got the 60GB model x 2. Since 4.6 the system won't even boot with tagging enabled :-( The kernel reports it as (note no 'tagging' keyword):- atapci0: Intel ICH ATA66 controller port 0xf000-0xf00f at device 31.1 on pci0 ad0: 39266MB IC35L040AVVN07-0 [79780/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66 Do you have hw.ata.tags=1 in /boot/loader.conf? It is 0 by default (check with sysctl hw.ata.tags). See ata(4). $.02, /Mikko To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: IBM ATA Deskstars *without* tagged queueing?
Bruce M Simpson wrote: I bought a Deskstar 120GXP that *doesn't* appear to do tagged queueing. I was wondering if anyone else had encountered such a thing. It's somewhat annoying; generally I buy IBM drives for precisely the reason that they're meant to support tagging. Exactly the same thing happened here with a IC35L020AVER07-0; it did not do tagging and i bought it (and many other IBM drives) because of that. I spend some time verifying that it really was the drive that did not do tagging (rests: http://people.freebsd.org/~hm/misc/atacontrol.c) and when i was shure i called IBM technical support. This was one of the best support i ever got: the guy on the other side understood what i meant, he called back without me remebering him to call back, i got feedback, test software, and so on ... It turned out that the drive i bought had DELL firmware in it [ :- ] so they sent me an updated DELL firmware, but that did not enable tagged support. I asked for a cross update program to get IBM firmware; they had none. They wrote one :-), i got it and now my drive does tagged command queueing. And all this for a dirt cheap drive ... hellmuth (Cc trimmed down to -hackers) -- Hellmuth MichaelisHamburg, Europe[EMAIL PROTECTED]www.kts.org There is a difference between an open mind and a hole in the head. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: IBM ATA Deskstars *without* tagged queueing?
It seems Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: support. I asked for a cross update program to get IBM firmware; they had none. They wrote one :-), i got it and now my drive does tagged command queueing. Well, I've always liked IBM's as well, anyhow do you still have the update program ? I'd like to add that to my collection. (One of these days I really should find out how they do the firmware download)... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
