Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 09:00:34 -0600 From: Ken Gunderson <kgunders@teamcool.net> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nForce4-SLI, AHCI and NCQ and FreeBSD 6.0 Message-ID: <20050906090034.17d2feba.kgunders@teamcool.net> In-Reply-To: <431D90E1.1030105@mail.uni-mainz.de> References: <431D90E1.1030105@mail.uni-mainz.de>
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On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:51:45 +0200 "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> 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). Along similar lines, is anyone aware of any VIA based boards that even support SATAII? From what I understand the VIA VT8237 is limited to SATA I and it's successor is still quite a way away from production release. -- Best regards, Ken Gunderson Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is putting a reply at the top of the message frowned upon?
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