On Tuesday 20 June 2006 17:37, Tejun Heo wrote: > [CC'ing Bastiaan Jacques. Hi!] Hey! > Do you happen to have a different drive which can do NCQ? > Preferably, one from another vendor? I've just tried it with a Maxtor drive supporting NCQ, and it didn't work. > AFAICS, the ahci driver is > doing NCQ as the AHCI spec specifies and all ICH controllers seem to > be quite happy with it. I wanna know whether the problem is from the > specific combination of the controller and the drive or the via > controller needs a different programming sequence for NCQ in general. It would seem the problem is in the VIA controller. Surprise, surprise. > Bastiaan, do you know whether we need to do things differently to use > NCQ on vt8251? Apparently we have a hardware or firmware bug to work around, but I have no idea what we should be doing differently. -- Bastiaan - : 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
