Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Feizhou <feizhou at 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.