Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:24:21 -0700 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Malachi_de_=C6lfweald?= <malachid@gmail.com> To: "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: <c090347a05092318242d2ca700@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4333D21E.9080906@mail.uni-mainz.de> References: <431D90E1.1030105@mail.uni-mainz.de> <433366AC.5070009@ec.rr.com> <4333D21E.9080906@mail.uni-mainz.de>
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We found an Asus support page saying that you have to run the hitachi software to enable the 3Gb/sec on the drives. I did that, and it said the motherboard was not compatible. I called Asus -- and they confirmed what you have been saying. The Si3114 supports RAID5 and the nVidia SATAII -- which is unfortunate, because I bought the motherboard based on their false advertisements. I am in the process of switching the drives over to the nVidia controller now. Malachi On 9/23/05, O. Hartmann <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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" >
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