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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] speed up SATA
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 12:49:19 -0500
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To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

Jens Axboe wrote:
> What would be nice (and I seem to recall that Andre also pushed for
> this) would be the FUA bit doubling as an ordered tag indicator when
> using TCQ. It's one of those things that keep ATA squarely outside of
> the big machine uses. That other OS had a differing opinion of what to
> do with that, so...

Preach on, brother Jens :)

I agree completely.  Or, the ATA guys could use SCSI's ordered tags / 
linked commands.

Regardless, there's ATA dain bramage that needs fixing...  Sigh.

	Jeff