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Date:      Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:47:30 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk>
To:        "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sil3112a SATA Controller, current status
Message-ID:  <419DC132.2000707@DeepCore.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20041119040417.GC768@squash.dsto.defence.gov.au>
References:  <f8646080041118045410a4629c@mail.gmail.com> <419CEFB9.7060604@DeepCore.dk> <20041119040417.GC768@squash.dsto.defence.gov.au>

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Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
> Soren, I know that TCQ stands for 'Tagged Command Queing',=20
> but how about NCQ ?

NCQ =3D Native Command Queueing, semilar to TCQ but with different=20
commands and sematics, still limitted to 32 tags. IIRC there is no "bus=20
release" cycle in NCQ as SATA only has one device pr chain (well, as=20
long as you dont use port multipliers that is).

> And how does one find out if their SATA disk is really using a
> PATA-SATA converter chip ? smartmon ?

Either by asking then vendor or by visual inspection, you cannot tell pr =

software, at least not in any reliable way AFAIK.

--=20

-S=F8ren




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