On 10/23/06, Michael Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
