Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:59:58 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nForce4-SLI, AHCI and NCQ and FreeBSD 6.0 Message-ID: <4333D21E.9080906@mail.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <433366AC.5070009@ec.rr.com> References: <431D90E1.1030105@mail.uni-mainz.de> <433366AC.5070009@ec.rr.com>
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jason wrote: > O. Hartmann wrote: > >> Hello. >> I have a little question about the popular nForce4-SLI chipset for the >> Socket 939 platform. The onboard SATA controller of the nForce4-SLI >> chipset claims to be NCQ (or SATA II) capable, but nVidia implemented >> this feature in a not-AHCI-standardised way, but as an own solution. >> My question is: Is the FBSD 6.X driver for the nForce4-SLI chipset >> capable of using NCQ (as I know, the driver has to enable NCQ and it's >> not done automatically by the harddrive-controller interaction). >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Oliver >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > Regaurdless of what the motherboard manufacturer says a SilI3114 SATA > controller is SATA spec 1.0. Yes , that is exactly what I got from http://www.siliconimage.com/. Every report I read about ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe/Premium gave the same technical specs: the second RAID5-capable SATA chip (SilI3114) is attached to the 32Bit bus (*NOT* PCIe). Also, there is *NO* 64Bit bus on any of the mentioned mainboards! And, by the way, the nForce4-SLI MCP is capable of NCQ, but the capability is *NOT* AHCI conform, so it seemes to me that we need a special treatment using this add on - but we all know how restricted nVidia is offering internal details about their chipset to open source projects like FreeBSD. This is what I found out searching the net, some articles and watching this list. Oliver
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