[8240] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: scatter gather or not to scatter gather
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Garloff)
Fri Feb 25 13:22:54 2000
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 19:00:34 +0100
From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>,
The Linux SCSI list <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
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On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 12:53:28PM -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> >Kurt,
> >This url is to a white paper by IBM about "packetized" scsi.
>
> Information Unit Transfers (what you call "packetized scsi") is
> already defined in SPI3. The Adaptec U160 controllers can be made
> to support it with suitable firmware modifications. The QLogic
> U160 controllers may already support it, but I'm not sure.
Well, but the firmware will not affect Linux operation, will it?
AFAIK, the Linux drivers don't rely on firmware but use their
own routines and scripts.
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