On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:53:30 +0100 Erik Mouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 01:19:10PM +1000, Peter A. Cole wrote: > > With the impending purchase (yeehaa!) of my new Athlon 64 system, I > > have now come across a situation where I can no longer get a standard > > Seagate SATA 80GB hard drive, but I now have to get one with "NCQ". > > > > I've read a bit about what this is, but what I really need to know is > > if this will work like any other SATA drive? > > NCQ = Native Command Queueing. It's just a SATA feature. See > http://linux.yyz.us/sata/software-status.html for details. > > > Erik > Thanks for the link Erik, much appreciated. That clears it up a bit for me. Pete

