And now, for something completely different...
A question, from me... ;-)
As some might know, by having read my blog, I'm running a small HOME-NAS
server. It's in it's third iteration now... ;-)
Still, I'm not fully content with it, so I again need to replce the MoBo, but
those are different questions...
What I'm interested in, is, how best to attach the SATA drives, so that I do
get the best performance out of them:
pci8086,27d2, instance #3 (driver name: pcieb)
pci197b,2363, instance #0 (driver name: ahci)
disk, instance #16 (driver name: sd)
disk, instance #17 (driver name: sd)
pci8086,27c1, instance #1 (driver name: ahci)
disk, instance #19 (driver name: sd)
disk, instance #20 (driver name: sd)
is, what I currently use on my Jetway NC96-510-LF board (with the updated
BIOS!).
The latter two could also be connected as (entries here changed by hand!):
pci8086,27c1, instance #2 (driver name: pci-ide)
ide, instance #4 (driver name: ata)
disk, instance #19 (driver name: cmdk)
disk, instance #20 (driver name: cmdk)
It seems, some vendors that are using the new Atom boards are reluctant to
implement the set-ability of the AHCI mode for the SATA ports of the Intel
NM10 chipset, which would force the disks connected to those ports to be seen
as IDE disks, and not as SATA disks.. (as in the latter case!)
So, a couple questions from this:
1.) When will AHCI support the NM10 chipset?
2.) Is there a negative effect if the SATA disks connected to those ports only
run as IDE (aka cmdk driver?)
3.) Could I force the NM10 chipset to always treat disks as AHCI by attaching
the AHCI driver to the NM10 chipset, in case the BIOS does not allow to
set AHCI for those two ports?
Thanks!
Matthias
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