From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Slagter Subject: Re: Playing with SATA NCQ Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 09:29:52 +0200 Message-ID: <1117438192.4851.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20050526140058.GR1419@suse.de> <1117382598.4851.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4299F47B.5020603@gmail.com> <1117387591.4851.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <429A58F4.3040308@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from oldconomy.demon.nl ([212.238.217.56]:7865 "EHLO artemis.slagter.name") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261537AbVE3HaF (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 03:30:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: <429A58F4.3040308@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Michael Thonke , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 20:06 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > > ICH6M (mobile/no raid) on a Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop. AFAIK there are > > no plans to implement support for AHCI transition in the BIOS. &^$##($% > > DELL. > > No hope of it on this machine (I'm using a tricked-out i9300 here too), > because (1) the HD is PATA, not SATA, and (2) the drive itself probably > doesn't support NCQ (my 100GB drive does NOT -- use "hdparm -I" to see > what is supported on any given drive. libata-dev includes hdparm support). I really have a (native) SATA drive, I checked the ID from dmesg.