oh nice! so it "just works" -- is there any way to verify it? Is there any reason to use the highpoint driver when the native FreeBSD one seems to work?
thanks!! On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 1:26 PM, Alan Somers <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 11:08 AM, FF <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have a machine with the Highpoint card and motherboard based SATA >> drives. >> The drives from the MB support AHCI and appear as ada0-8. The drives on >> the >> highpoint card whether using native FreeBSD support or the Highpoint >> provided driver show up as da9-39. >> >> It is my understanding that AHCI is needed to support NCQ... I'm wondering >> what I need to do to get AHCI enabled. This seems to happen in both >> FreeBSD >> 9 and FreeBSD 10. >> >> thanks in advance! >> > > AHCI has nothing to do with it. The driver presents itself to the OS as a > SCSI HBA, even though the drives are SATA. In fact, it might actually be > using a SCSI IC, but firmware-restricted to only connect to SATA drives. > In any case, the OS is going to try to use TCQ, and either the driver or > the firmware is going to translate those queued commands into NCQ. You > don't need to change anything. > > -Alan > > -- FF _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
