Re: ahci questions

2008-12-08 Thread Artur Grabowski
frantisek holop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: my last question for people running ahci, is it better than ide in any perceivable way? The code is so much cleaner than the pciide mess. That's enough to make it better. I also believe it's faster, but I don't have any concrete numbers for it. Also,

Re: ahci questions

2008-12-08 Thread Alexander Hall
Artur Grabowski wrote: frantisek holop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: my last question for people running ahci, is it better than ide in any perceivable way? The code is so much cleaner than the pciide mess. That's enough to make it better. I also believe it's faster, but I don't have any

Re: ahci questions

2008-12-08 Thread David Vasek
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, David Gwynne wrote: On 08/12/2008, at 8:36 PM, Alexander Hall wrote: Heh. I'm so used to almost every disk nowadays attaching as sd (sata, usb, raid stuff) so I get both nostalgic and a bit uncomfortable when disks (mainly CF's) show up as wd0. Kinda floppy disk feeling.

Re: ahci questions

2008-12-08 Thread David Gwynne
On 08/12/2008, at 21:33, David Vasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, David Gwynne wrote: On 08/12/2008, at 8:36 PM, Alexander Hall wrote: Heh. I'm so used to almost every disk nowadays attaching as sd (sata, usb, raid stuff) so I get both nostalgic and a bit uncomfortable

ahci questions

2008-12-05 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i was looking for some ahci info when i stumbled upon the intel site http://www.intel.com/technology/serialata/ahci.htm Implementation of the Advanced Host Controller Interface Specification requires a license from Intel. does this mean based on their specs, or _any_

Re: ahci questions

2008-12-05 Thread Christian Weisgerber
frantisek holop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Implementation of the Advanced Host Controller Interface Specification requires a license from Intel. If you build a chipset with an AHCI interface, you need a license. Chip design is outside the purview of OpenBSD, I think. my last

Re: ahci questions

2008-12-05 Thread Marcos Laufer - Ipv4networks.com
it's 10 times faster than ide , go for it. also get the right hard drives, those must be sata2 On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 02:47:23PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: hi there, i was looking for some ahci info when i stumbled upon the intel site http://www.intel.com/technology/serialata/ahci.htm

Re: ahci questions

2008-12-05 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 01:56:16PM -0200, Marcos Laufer - Ipv4networks.com said that it's 10 times faster than ide , go for it. also get the right hard drives, those must be sata2 so no real benefit for sata disks? how can i say if a disk is sata or sata2? sata is SATA 150 and sata2 is