Risc System/6000

[Henry Spencer]

In article <132788 at sun.Eng.Sun.COM> mjacob at sun.UUCP (Matt Jacob) writes:
>... With the coming of SCSI-2
>multiple command targets, it seems to me that one should just
>concentrate on getting requests out to the target as quickly
>as possible and let the microprocessor on the drive figure out
>the best order do them in.

This is reasonable, provided that (a) one can impose constraints on the
ordering to meet filesystem-integrity requirements, and (b) the micro
on the drive has enough queue space for (potentially) hundreds of
requests.  I'm not holding my breath.
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