On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 14:52 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 11 May 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Has any work been done recently towards adding SATA Native Command
> > Queueing as well as ATA APM and acoustic management to FreeBSD?
> >
> > I found this PR (with patch) to add APM and acoustic management control to
> > atacontrol. The PR was opened in May 2005 has not been changed since
> > December 2006 and is still open.
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=81692&cat=
> >
> > I have not been able to find much of anything on SATA NCQ in FreeBSD newer
> > than 2005 or 2006 does anyone know anything newer?
>
> Jeremy has addressed the NCQ issue, about which I know nothing.
>
> As for APM and AAM, that functionality is handled by sysutils/ataidle,
> which that PR appears - on a quick glance - to pretty well duplicate.
>
> I see phk@ recently added an 'atacontrol spindown' command to HEAD and
> RELENG_7 that appears to offer similar functionality to 'ataidle -S
> standby_mins' or 'ataidle -I idle_mins', though specified in seconds
> instead. However this doesn't address acoustic management.
>
> Or is ataidle broken for SATA disks?
Does not look broken here (RELENG_7):
RabbitsDen# ataidle /dev/ad4
Device Info:
Model: HTS541010G9SA00
Serial: MP2ZM4X0JWY6WH
Firmware Rev: MBZIC60H
ATA revision: ATA-7
LBA 48: yes
Geometry: 16383 cyls, 16 heads, 63 spt
Capacity: 93GB
SMART Supported: yes
SMART Enabled: yes
APM Supported: yes
APM Enabled: yes
AAM Supported: yes
AAM Enabled: yes
Current AAM: 1
Vendor Recommends AAM: 1
APM Value: 16638
RabbitsDen# atacontrol list
ATA channel 0:
Master: no device present
Slave: no device present
ATA channel 1:
Master: no device present
Slave: no device present
ATA channel 2:
Master: ad4 <HTS541010G9SA00/MBZIC60H> Serial ATA v1.0
Slave: no device present
ATA channel 3:
Master: no device present
Slave: no device present
ATA channel 4:
Master: no device present
Slave: no device present
ATA channel 5:
Master: no device present
Slave: no device present
atacontrol: ioctl(IOCATADEVICES): Device not configured
RabbitsDen# uname -a
FreeBSD RabbitsDen.RabbitsLawn.verizon.net 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE
#1: Sun May 11 20:31:21 EDT 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/TPX60
i386
RabbitsDen#
>
> cheers, Ian
>
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