Eric D. Mudama wrote: > On 10/30/07, Michael Tokarev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> By the way, did you forget to remove a jumper on the drive >> (the only jumper installed by default) that limits drive >> usage to SATAI? > ... >> ..etc. Try again without the jumper? Note that NCQ is NOT supported >> in SATAI mode, or there were some pre-standard implementations of it. >> In SATAII, NCQ is standard (well... more or less anyway ;) > > Huh? > > To my knowledge, the jumper should only limit the bus rate to > 1.5Gbit/s, for compatibility with one or more chipsets. It shouldn't > affect the command set supported by the device.
The thing is that I don't know. I had some other probs with seagate sata drives when the jumper was there. So I learned a lesson - always remove the jumper before using their drives. I don't want to test which other restrictions this and other drive families apply when jumpered... ;) /mjt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
