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Re: SATA disk detected as IDE? SOLVED



On Sunday 04 July 2010 16:04:56 Paul E Condon wrote:
> On 20100702_235713, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh put forth on 7/2/2010 9:24 PM:
> > > On Fri, 02 Jul 2010, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > >>> software...  What is NCQ? (in this context, of course) What is
> > >
> > > A way to have various requests "in flight" and let the disk itself
> > > order them to get "better" performance.  Whether it helps performance
> > > or not depends on the IO workload, the kind of device, and the quality
> > > of the NCQ firmware in the device.
> > >
> > >>> "ATA_NCQ_HORKAGE list"? The only hit that I get on this string in
> > >>> Google
>
> I was involved in this confusion at an earlier stage. I'm still
> confused: What, exactly, do I type into Google to gain a URL of this
> resource?  Does it REALLY involve HORKAGE with an "H"? And
> underscores? Presumably this is a well know resource. But only to
> those who already know, and not to me.

Try reading the bottom of your own email (and now beneath this), where it 
correctly quotes Stan.  He says that it should be: "ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ".

Lisi

> > > It is a blacklist for defective products that misbehave when NCQ is
> > > enabled, or which have such a poor excuse of an NCQ implementation that
> > > one should never enable it.
> >
> > You mangled your quoting.  I didn't ask these questions, another OP did. 
> > I answered them.  Or, at least, someone else answered the first and I
> > answered the second.  And again, it's not "ATA_NCQ_HORKAGE" but rather
> > "ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ".  No real foul.  I'm just correcting the record for
> > the various archives.
> >
> > --
> > Stan




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