Re: Maybe OT, sort of - NCQ SATA Hard Drives
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 01:19:10PM +1000, Peter A. Cole wrote:
> With the impending purchase (yeehaa!) of my new Athlon 64 system, I
> have now come across a situation where I can no longer get a standard
> Seagate SATA 80GB hard drive, but I now have to get one with "NCQ".
>
> I've read a bit about what this is, but what I really need to know is
> if this will work like any other SATA drive?
NCQ = Native Command Queueing. It's just a SATA feature. See
http://linux.yyz.us/sata/software-status.html for details.
Erik
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