From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Thonke Subject: Re: Playing with SATA NCQ Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 20:27:03 +0200 Message-ID: <429A0977.5040601@gmail.com> References: <20050526140058.GR1419@suse.de> <1117382598.4851.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4299EF16.2050208@pobox.com> <1117385429.4851.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4299F4E2.4020305@pobox.com> <1117387432.4851.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050529172949.GA3578@havoc.gtf.org> <1117388703.4851.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> <429A036D.8090104@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.200]:14201 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261386AbVE2S1K (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 May 2005 14:27:10 -0400 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so1395308wri for ; Sun, 29 May 2005 11:27:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <429A036D.8090104@pobox.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Erik Slagter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe Jeff Garzik schrieb: > Erik Slagter wrote: > >> I guess the only way to have, for example the ICH6, not using legacy >> IRQ/ports, is to switch it to AHCI, which only the BIOS can do (if >> implemented). > > > "native mode" is where PATA and/or SATA PCI device is programmed into > full PCI mode -- PCI BARs, PCI irq, etc. Some BIOSen allow you to > enable mode, which disables all use of legacy IRQ/ports. > > Also, ICH6 silicon does not support AHCI, only ICH6-R and ICH6-M. > > Jeff > Hello Jeff, AHCI also works when the so called option "RAID mode" on ICH6R/ICH7 is set. One question in addition when will the patch of Jens in libata-2.6 tree?or is it already merged? /Michael