Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:51:20 +0100 From: Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Non-raid PCIe SATA controller with 8 ports? Message-ID: <200706050451.EAA17749@sopwith.solgatos.com>
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> - as you mentioned, without the battery backup the cache on the > controller would have to be write-through, which disabled much of > the advantage of the thing. > I can't have NCQ on the NVidia SATA ports, Yes, very annoying to choose hardware that supports NCQ and then discover you can't use it due to no software support. :-( Surely someone can translate this from penguin to daemon? http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/archive/2.6.17-nv-adma.patch.bz2 > and hence have to use the disk's write cache. Huh? Is a write-back cache in a disk somehow safer than a write-back cache in a controller? We really really need NCQ. :-/
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