Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261375AbVE2SBZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 May 2005 14:01:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261373AbVE2SBZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 May 2005 14:01:25 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:43751 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261369AbVE2SBV (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 May 2005 14:01:21 -0400 Message-ID: <429A036D.8090104@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 14:01:17 -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: Erik Slagter CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe Subject: Re: Playing with SATA NCQ References: <20050526140058.GR1419@suse.de> <1117382598.4851.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4299EF16.2050208@pobox.com> <1117385429.4851.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4299F4E2.4020305@pobox.com> <1117387432.4851.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050529172949.GA3578@havoc.gtf.org> <1117388703.4851.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1117388703.4851.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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: 693 Lines: 19 Erik Slagter wrote: > I guess the only way to have, for example the ICH6, not using legacy > IRQ/ports, is to switch it to AHCI, which only the BIOS can do (if > implemented). "native mode" is where PATA and/or SATA PCI device is programmed into full PCI mode -- PCI BARs, PCI irq, etc. Some BIOSen allow you to enable mode, which disables all use of legacy IRQ/ports. Also, ICH6 silicon does not support AHCI, only ICH6-R and ICH6-M. 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/