Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262483AbVE0QAy (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 May 2005 12:00:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262484AbVE0QAx (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 May 2005 12:00:53 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:38623 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262483AbVE0QAt (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 May 2005 12:00:49 -0400 Message-ID: <4297442A.8080300@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 12:00:42 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Fedora/1.7.6-1.2.5 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthias Andree CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] SATA NCQ support References: <20050527070353.GL1435@suse.de> <20050527131842.GC19161@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <20050527131842.GC19161@merlin.emma.line.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 764 Lines: 21 Matthias Andree wrote: > OK, so this is for AHCI. What are the options for people whose > mainboards aren't blessed with AHCI, but use for instance VIA or older > Promise chips? Buy new hardware? Or wait until someone comes up with an > implementation? As Jens mentioned, NCQ support requires both device and hardware have explicit NCQ support. That eliminates most of Linux's supported SATA controllers, none of which support NCQ. Don't have a heart attack, though, SATA is pretty fast even without NCQ. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/