FreeBSD 6.x + SATA NCQ?
Adrian Chadd
adrian at freebsd.org
Mon Oct 23 12:47:21 UTC 2006
On 10/23/06, Michael Butler <imb at protected-networks.net> wrote:
>
> Sadly, a good proportion of current laptops fitted with SATA-150
> drives and based on the the Intel ICH-7 chipset do not fully
> initialize AHCI mode in the BIOS. Specifically, no resources are
> allocated to supporting it. This complicates any potential driver
> implementation somewhat :-(
I'm not that worried about laptops; they don't come with rack mounting kits :)
I was more interested in the various intel server motherboards with
onboard SATA.
Here's a blog entry from someone who managed to (in the true linux way
of patching patching patching) got what he saw as stable NCQ support
for his servers:
http://blog.kovyrin.net/2006/08/11/turn-on-ncq-on-ich-linux/
It'd be nifty to see something like this pop up in FreeBSD 6.x for the
Intel ICH7 boards.
Thanks,
Adrian
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