Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:47:19 +0800 From: "Adrian Chadd" <adrian@freebsd.org> To: "Michael Butler" <imb@protected-networks.net> Cc: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@uni-mainz.de>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.x + SATA NCQ? Message-ID: <d763ac660610230547k8f61a71v6aedca4730a6fda7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <453CB483.7050809@protected-networks.net> References: <d763ac660610222357r5db24977i8d68fcb75ad05735@mail.gmail.com> <453CB1F0.2060901@uni-mainz.de> <453CB483.7050809@protected-networks.net>
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On 10/23/06, Michael Butler <imb@protected-networks.net> wrote: > > Sadly, a good proportion of current laptops fitted with SATA-150 > drives and based on the the Intel ICH-7 chipset do not fully > initialize AHCI mode in the BIOS. Specifically, no resources are > allocated to supporting it. This complicates any potential driver > implementation somewhat :-( I'm not that worried about laptops; they don't come with rack mounting kits :) I was more interested in the various intel server motherboards with onboard SATA. Here's a blog entry from someone who managed to (in the true linux way of patching patching patching) got what he saw as stable NCQ support for his servers: http://blog.kovyrin.net/2006/08/11/turn-on-ncq-on-ich-linux/ It'd be nifty to see something like this pop up in FreeBSD 6.x for the Intel ICH7 boards. Thanks, Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - adrian@freebsd.org
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