From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Cloos Subject: Re: AMD 890GX vs 6Gbps SATA? Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:39:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4CE0B247.50002@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from eagle.jhcloos.com ([207.210.242.212]:34165 "EHLO eagle.jhcloos.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757973Ab0KOQqO (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:46:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4CE0B247.50002@garzik.org> (Jeff Garzik's message of "Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:08:39 -0500") Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "JG" =3D=3D Jeff Garzik writes: JG> No, on SATA each link is entirely independent of the other links JG> (ignoring port multipliers). That is what I thought. JG> The "3 Gbps" maximum you see on the first line comes directly from JG> what capabilities the chip reports, so perhaps the firmware/BIOS is JG> not initializing the chip properly. And that is what I was afraid of. =E2=98=B9 JG> AHCI 1.2 hardware, the AHCI driver and libata core should all suppo= rt JG> operation at 6 Gbps. Again, what I thought. -JimC --=20 James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6