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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: jshankar <jshankar@CS.ColoState.EDU>
Cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: queue depth help!!
Date: 31 Dec 2003 10:26:56 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1072888017.1893.2.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FF4A594@webmail.colostate.edu>

On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 10:23, jshankar wrote:
> On issuing a scsi command write, does the  data needs to be written 
> succesfully 
> to disk before issuing a scsi response. Is there a chance that the previous 
> command's data is still cached on scsi controller and the next command issued 
> is executed.

That depends on the drive cache setting.  For a write back cache,
no--status will be sent before the command reaches the medium (as long
as the FUA bit isn't set); for all other cache settings, yes.

> Please let me know if there are any  good tools for scsi analyzer.

I don't actually have one of these, so I'll let others answer...

James



  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-31 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-31 16:23 queue depth help!! jshankar
2003-12-31 16:26 ` James Bottomley [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-27 21:38 jshankar
2003-12-27 21:46 ` James Bottomley

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