Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261352AbVE2QgY (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 May 2005 12:36:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261354AbVE2QgY (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 May 2005 12:36:24 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:27623 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261352AbVE2QgH (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 May 2005 12:36:07 -0400 Message-ID: <4299EF74.9060506@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 12:36:04 -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> <20050527135258.GW1435@suse.de> <429732CE.5010708@gmx.de> <20050527145821.GX1435@suse.de> <20050529131611.GB13418@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <20050529131611.GB13418@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: 846 Lines: 25 Matthias Andree wrote: > On Fri, 27 May 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: > > >>>suck and should not be cared about, and if I were to go into SATA, I >>>should just get a new controller and forget about my onboard VIA crap. >>>(I read newer VIA are supposed to support AHCI which is good.) >> >>SATA is still pretty fast without NCQ, it just makes some operations a > > > Do I take this as SATA is faster than legacy ATA? In what respect? > UDMA/33 and SATA I shouldn't be much different if I use the same drive, > or is there something? It is "likely" to be faster. Faster bus, newer technology. 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/