Jens Axboe wrote: > On Wed, Mar 01 2006, Gentoopower wrote: > >> I have two seagates in my box a 160GB 7200.7 and 160GB 7200.9(SATAII >> NCQ), using NFORCE4. >> I can defintely feel the speed difference between the two drives. >> > > Well that can't be because of NCQ, since it isn't active :-) > Got ya:-) Who said this box is running only linux? I have dual boot on this box, Windows 2003 Server and Gentoo, originally I had windows on the 7200.2 then bought the 7200.9, cloned the drive to the new, therefore I know the difference:-) And yeah it is active, at least nvidias info tool in hardware manager says it is:-) > >> P.S. Just waiting to see NCQ support for my nforce system in libata:-) >> > > Don't hold your breath, it's unlikely to get supported as nvidia wont > open the specs. ahci is a really really nice controller, if you want ncq > I suggest going with that. sil is probably the next in line for ncq > support. > > ___________________________________________________________ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html