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From: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
To: dhdurgee@verizon.net
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SATA II NCQ and multi-port support for ICH7
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:04:02 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A675492.9060106@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0KN6003ZATOVGH70@vms173017.mailsrvcs.net>

On 07/22/2009 07:15 AM, dhdurgee@verizon.net wrote:
> I have recently purchased an Areca ARC-5020 external eSATA II RAID to
> connect to my system.  This unit supports ICH NCQ and multi-port for
> multiple volumes.  I have connected it to my Intel DG41TY mainboard, which
> has the Intel 82801GB I/O Controller Hub (ICH7), but I find I am only
> seeing the first volume and the unit shows NCQ is inactive.

...

> So NCQ is detected on the RAID unit but is not enabled and only one of the
> two volumes is being seen.  Am I missing something that needs to be
> enabled for the driver to support the advanced features?  Is my
> configuration loading the proper driver?  If not, how can I load it?

The SATA controller is in the legacy PIIX mode which doesn't support 
most SATA-specific features. You need to switch it into AHCI mode 
(should be a BIOS setting for it somewhere) and then the ahci driver 
will get used instead of ata_piix.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-22 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-22 13:15 SATA II NCQ and multi-port support for ICH7 dhdurgee
2009-07-22 16:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-07-23  5:24   ` Tejun Heo
2009-07-24 13:16   ` Bjørn Mork
2009-07-24 16:22     ` Jeff Garzik
2009-07-22 18:04 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
     [not found] <4A68CF40.1050708@kernel.org>
2009-07-24 12:02 ` dhdurgee

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