Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261581AbVEaBVj (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 21:21:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261711AbVEaBVj (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 21:21:39 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:1261 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261581AbVEaBVh (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 21:21:37 -0400 Message-ID: <429BBC1B.1060402@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 21:21:31 -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: Robert Hancock CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] SATA NCQ support References: <48Hix-88s-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <48N4N-4B5-25@gated-at.bofh.it> <48Pzt-6Kb-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <429BA937.2090802@shaw.ca> In-Reply-To: <429BA937.2090802@shaw.ca> 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: 1251 Lines: 38 Robert Hancock wrote: > 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.. NVIDIA is the only company that hasn't been willing to give me any SATA docs access, so who knows. NVIDIA themselves wrote sata_nv, so presumably they'll support it whenever people poke them enough. 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/