Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261647AbVEaAF1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 20:05:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261729AbVEaADt (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 20:03:49 -0400 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:52519 "EHLO pd3mo2so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261839AbVEaACM (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 20:02:12 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 18:00:55 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: [PATCH] SATA NCQ support In-reply-to: <48Pzt-6Kb-5@gated-at.bofh.it> To: linux-kernel Message-id: <429BA937.2090802@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <48Hix-88s-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <48N4N-4B5-25@gated-at.bofh.it> <48Pzt-6Kb-5@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1134 Lines: 30 Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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. > NVIDIA nForce4 supports NCQ under Windows.. any word on whether docs may become available to allow this to be supported under Linux? You'd think NVIDIA would want to get that support in.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - 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/