Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4

2005-08-02 Thread Otto Meier
Jens Axboe wrote: On Mon, Aug 01 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: Jens Axboe wrote: On Mon, Aug 01 2005, Daniel Drake wrote: Otto Meier wrote: My question is also are these features (NCQ/TCQ) and the heigher datarate be supported by this modification? or is only the basic f

Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4

2005-08-01 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Aug 01 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > >On Mon, Aug 01 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > >>Jens Axboe wrote: > >> > >>>Oh, and forget TCQ. It's a completely worthless technology inherited > >> > >>>from PATA, > >> > >>Agreed. > >> > >>There are a few controllers where we may -ev

Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4

2005-08-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jens Axboe wrote: On Mon, Aug 01 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: Jens Axboe wrote: Oh, and forget TCQ. It's a completely worthless technology inherited from PATA, Agreed. There are a few controllers where we may -eventually- add TCQ support, controllers that do 100% of TCQ in hardware. But t

Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4

2005-08-01 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Aug 01 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > >Oh, and forget TCQ. It's a completely worthless technology inherited > >from PATA, > > Agreed. > > There are a few controllers where we may -eventually- add TCQ support, > controllers that do 100% of TCQ in hardware. But that's so f

Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4

2005-08-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jens Axboe wrote: Oh, and forget TCQ. It's a completely worthless technology inherited from PATA, Agreed. There are a few controllers where we may -eventually- add TCQ support, controllers that do 100% of TCQ in hardware. But that's so far down the priority list, it's below just about every

Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4

2005-08-01 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Aug 01 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > >On Mon, Aug 01 2005, Daniel Drake wrote: > > > >>Otto Meier wrote: > >> > >>>My question is also are these features (NCQ/TCQ) and the heigher > >>>datarate be supported by this > >>>modification? or is only the basic feature set of sat

Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4

2005-08-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jens Axboe wrote: On Mon, Aug 01 2005, Daniel Drake wrote: Otto Meier wrote: My question is also are these features (NCQ/TCQ) and the heigher datarate be supported by this modification? or is only the basic feature set of sata 150 TX4 supported? NCQ support is under development. Search the

Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4

2005-08-01 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Aug 01 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, Aug 01 2005, Daniel Drake wrote: > > Otto Meier wrote: > > >My question is also are these features (NCQ/TCQ) and the heigher > > >datarate be supported by this > > >modification? or is only the basic feature set of sata 150 TX4 supported? > > > > N

Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4

2005-08-01 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Aug 01 2005, Daniel Drake wrote: > Otto Meier wrote: > >My question is also are these features (NCQ/TCQ) and the heigher > >datarate be supported by this > >modification? or is only the basic feature set of sata 150 TX4 supported? > > NCQ support is under development. Search the archives

Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4

2005-08-01 Thread Daniel Drake
Otto Meier wrote: My question is also are these features (NCQ/TCQ) and the heigher datarate be supported by this modification? or is only the basic feature set of sata 150 TX4 supported? NCQ support is under development. Search the archives for Jens Axboe's recent patches to support this. I d

Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4

2005-08-01 Thread Otto Meier
Daniel Drake wrote: Otto Meier wrote: This card use the sata chip pdc 40718 (as of my card) the lastest sata_promise kernel with sata promise patch driver doesn't recognise this card. I added the following line to static struct pci_device_id pdc_ata_pci_tbl[] in sata_promise.c: { PCI_VENDO

Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4

2005-08-01 Thread Otto Meier
Daniel Drake wrote: Otto Meier wrote: This card use the sata chip pdc 40718 (as of my card) the lastest sata_promise kernel with sata promise patch driver doesn't recognise this card. I added the following line to static struct pci_device_id pdc_ata_pci_tbl[] in sata_promise.c: { PCI_VENDO

Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4

2005-08-01 Thread Daniel Drake
Otto Meier wrote: This card use the sata chip pdc 40718 (as of my card) the lastest sata_promise kernel with sata promise patch driver doesn't recognise this card. I added the following line to static struct pci_device_id pdc_ata_pci_tbl[] in sata_promise.c: { PCI_VENDOR_ID_PROMISE,