[geeks] Dell sale on T105 Server

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Jul 1, 2009, at 18:08 , Michael-John Turner wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 02:17:23PM -0400, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> The MCP Pro chipset in the T105 does not have leading/bleeding edge  
>> SATA
>> support, and doesn't support AHCI.
>
> Indeed.
>
>> It's possible you'll never see NCQ support, and you certainly won't  
>> ever
>> see full NCQ support.
>
> Older Linux kernels enabled NCQ with the CK804 chipset but as of  
> 2.6.24
> it's disabled as a result of ADMA being disabled by default[1].

Hmmm... that's good to hear.

I thought the newer NCQ support required AHCI, but maybe it's not  
specifically because of AHCI, but how they had to rewrite the drivers  
to support AHCI.

Hopefully this means that Sun will be able to release a better nVidia  
driver with NCQ support for the older chipsets.


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