From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Slagter Subject: Re: Playing with SATA NCQ Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 18:03:18 +0200 Message-ID: <1117382598.4851.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20050526140058.GR1419@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from oldconomy.demon.nl ([212.238.217.56]:32182 "EHLO artemis.slagter.name") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261345AbVE2QEF (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 May 2005 12:04:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20050526140058.GR1419@suse.de> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jens Axboe On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 16:00 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > Now, this patch is not complete. It should work and work well, but error > handling isn't really tested or finished yet (by any stretch of the > imagination). So don't use this on a production machine, it _should_ be > safe to use on your test boxes and for-fun workstations though (I run it > here...). I have tested on ich6 and ich7 generation ahci, and with > Maxtor and Seagate drives. Is this supposed to work on ICH7 in legacy mode as well? Another question: is there a fundamental problem to have the ICH6/7 enabled AHCI mode by the kernel instead of the BIOS? I know some BIOSes don't offer the choice to enable AHCI (like mine :-().