Re: Playing with SATA NCQ

Jeff Garzik
2005-05-30T18:48:42Z

Mark Lord wrote:
> Erik Slagter wrote:>
>
>> Still I'd like to run in ACHI mode ;-)
>
>
> Me too! But from reading the ICH6 Intel docs,
> it seems that AHCI mode is only for true SATA drives.

Correct. AHCI mode absolutely requires SATA, because it only supports
the native SATA "FIS" packets.

As much as I would like, one cannot use AHCI to talk to any PATA device[1].

Jeff

[1] unless it's PATA bridged over SATA, the exception case that turns
any PATA device into a SATA device.