Re: Playing with SATA NCQ

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Mark Lord wrote:
Erik Slagter wrote:>

Still I'd like to run in ACHI mode ;-)


Me too!  But from reading the ICH6 Intel docs,
it seems that AHCI mode is only for true SATA drives.

Correct. AHCI mode absolutely requires SATA, because it only supports the native SATA "FIS" packets.

As much as I would like, one cannot use AHCI to talk to any PATA device[1].

	Jeff



[1] unless it's PATA bridged over SATA, the exception case that turns any PATA device into a SATA device.
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