Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 May 2005 12:34:30 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Playing with SATA NCQ |
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Erik Slagter wrote: > On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 16:00 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > >>Now, this patch is not complete. It should work and work well, but error >>handling isn't really tested or finished yet (by any stretch of the >>imagination). So don't use this on a production machine, it _should_ be >>safe to use on your test boxes and for-fun workstations though (I run it >>here...). I have tested on ich6 and ich7 generation ahci, and with >>Maxtor and Seagate drives. > > > Is this supposed to work on ICH7 in legacy mode as well?
Nope. ata_piix does not support NCQ (because the h/w doesn't support).
> Another question: is there a fundamental problem to have the ICH6/7 > enabled AHCI mode by the kernel instead of the BIOS? I know some BIOSes > don't offer the choice to enable AHCI (like mine :-().
Not a problem. You just don't get to use AHCI and such.
Jeff
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