Re: Playing with SATA NCQ

Erik Slagter
2005-05-30T07:30:10Z

On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 20:06 -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.
>
> No hope of it on this machine (I'm using a tricked-out i9300 here too),
> because (1) the HD is PATA, not SATA, and (2) the drive itself probably
> doesn't support NCQ (my 100GB drive does NOT -- use "hdparm -I" to see
> what is supported on any given drive. libata-dev includes hdparm support).

I really have a (native) SATA drive, I checked the ID from dmesg.