Hello everyone, Here's the full patch update. The aic7xxx code is changed to make sure we only try to use tag commands when they are turned on for the target, otherwise we can safely assume the drive won't do other writes first. The buslogic and sym53c8xx_2 code is included, and the reiserfs code is updated to queue the commit block immediately after the last log block when barrier mode is enabled. It wasn't happening soon enough with the first patch, and the drive wasn't getting the chance to flush the commit as a unit. reiserfs was also changed back to waiting on the buffers. benchmarks don't show dropping the waits actually made any speed difference, the really critical wait that was hurting us was: write X log blocks wait write 1 commit block wait With -o barrier, this is now: write X log blocks write 1 commit block wait. For scsi, the new code is about 10% faster on journal heavy stuff, but you've really gotta hammer on the log to see it. Patch is attached and against 2.4.18-pre9 (rc1 should be fine) -chris