Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net> wrote: > Ok, thank you for your explanation. I guess that is why we > had to get one particular rise from one particular > manufacturer. Yep. > I am sorry Bryan but we seem to have some misunderstanding. > 3ware is on Intel 7500 motherboards. Really? You can get an Intel E7500 chipset with 3Ware? Cool! Which models? > The VIA issue is something else entirely. Oh, I know. > Tell that to the one who picked the board. Oh, I've seen all sorts of such "selections" in my time. > Yes :) Seems like the typo bug is going around. ;-> [ Okay, I admit, I hold the record -- by a wide margin ] > Nforce4 Ultra and above support command queueing according > to them. They wish. ;-> Then again, the ATA "controller" is rather "dumb" -- the NCQ is on the IDE of the end-device. It's not like SCSI where there's an intelligent, hardware host. The AHCI is supposed to be the software/host equivalent of controlling up to 32 ATA devices with commands, etc... But I haven't seen much work well in that regard on even Windows. > Yes...where possible. Their SATA/NCQ implementation > apparently does not allow them to provide specs or something. Really? Hmmm, I thought the libata guys were pretty happy with them. I could be wrong, as it's been 2nd hand commentary. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)