Justin Piszcz wrote: >On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Dean S. Messing wrote: >> >> Brendan Conoboy wrote: >> <snip> >>> Is the onboard SATA controller real SATA or just an ATA-SATA >>> converter? If the latter, you're going to have trouble getting faster >>> performance than any one disk can give you at a time. The output of >>> 'lspci' should tell you if the onboard SATA controller is on its own >>> bus or sharing space with some other device. Pasting the output here >>> would be useful. >> <snip> >> >> N00bee question: >> >> How does one tell if a machine's disk controller is an ATA-SATA >> converter? >> >> The output of `lspci|fgrep -i sata' is: >> >> 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB SATA AHCI Controller\ >> (rev 09) >> >> suggests a real SATA. These references to ATA in "dmesg", however, >> make me wonder. >> >> ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) >> ata1.00: ATA-7: WDC WD1600JS-75NCB3, 10.02E04, max UDMA/133 >> ata1.00: 312500000 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) >> ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 >> ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) >> ata2.00: ATA-7: ST3160812AS, 3.ADJ, max UDMA/133 >> ata2.00: 312500000 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) >> ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 >> ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) >> ata3.00: ATA-7: ST3500630NS, 3.AEK, max UDMA/133 >> ata3.00: 976773168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) >> ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 >> >> >> Dean >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > >His drives are either really old and do not support NCQ or he is not using >AHCI in the BIOS. Sorry, Justin, if I wasn't clear. I was asking the N00bee question about _my_own_ machine. The output of lspci (on my machine) seems to indicate I have a "real" STAT controller on the Motherboard, but the contents of "dmesg", with the references to ATA-7 and UDMA/133, made me wonder if I had just an ATA-SATA converter. Hence my question: how does one tell definitively if one has a real SATA controller on the Mother Board? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
