Re: Playing with SATA NCQ

Mark Lord
2005-05-30T00:06:19Z

Erik Slagter 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).

Cheers