Bryan J. Smith wrote:
Feizhou feizhou@graffiti.net wrote:
Eh? http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_16450.html They specifically highlight NCQ on page 4 for their SATA implementation.
According to the SATA/libata status page: http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html#nvidia
I guess they were talking about the MCP-03, instead of the newer MCP-04? In any case, I'm not getting NCQ support on my nForce4 serieschipsets under Windows. I guess some just don't include it?
I built a box with the Tomcat K8E which does have NCQ supported on the SATA host controller but it also requires SATA disks that support NCQ...which I did not get. So no NCQ enabled there.
My point is that it's still not a hardware-based host adapter. It's only the end-device component, with a software host.
Yeah, it seems the regular nForce 4 and at least the nForce 410 (not sure about the 430) don't have it.
Hardware support there in the SATA controller. Don't which particular chip.