Re: Playing with SATA NCQ

Erik Slagter
2005-05-29T16:04:08Z

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 :-().