Re: Playing with SATA NCQ

Erik Slagter
2005-05-30T18:24:53Z

On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 14:09 -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.
> > I really have a (native) SATA drive, I checked the ID from dmesg.
>
> Seems rather unlikely that they would plumb the same notebook both ways.
> The 100GB drive in the i9300 here is a "FUJITSU MHV2100AH" (PATA).

This one is a MHT2080A and it looks indeed it's not SATA, so no NCQ.
Still I'd like to run in ACHI mode ;-)

I must have been fooled by the FC3 setup disk that handed it libata, I
didn't know libata also handles pata, then.