On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 16:56 -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > I've tested this patch on a x206m with a ST380819AS SATA2 disk plugged > into the Adaptec SAS controller. The drive came up with a queue depth > of 31, and I successfully ran an I/O flood test to coerce libata into > sending multiple commands simultaneously. A kernel probe recorded the > maximum tag number that had been seen before and after the flood test; > before the test it was 2 and after it was 30, as I expected. This doesn't seem to quite work for me on a SATA-1 disc: sas: DOING DISCOVERY on port 1, pid:1897 sas: sas_ata_phy_reset: Found ATA device. ata1.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 781422768 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 scsi 2:0:1:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3400832AS 3.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 SCSI device sdc: 781422768 512-byte hdwr sectors (400088 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdc: 781422768 512-byte hdwr sectors (400088 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back sdc: unknown partition table sd 2:0:1:0: Attached scsi disk sdc sas: DONE DISCOVERY on port 1, pid:1897, result:0 sas: command 0xf785f3c0, task 0x00000000, timed out: EH_HANDLED sas: command 0xf785f3c0, task 0x00000000, timed out: EH_HANDLED [...] It looks like the first few commands get through (read capacity, ATA IDENTIFY etc) and it hangs up on the read for the partition table. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html