Re: Maybe OT, sort of - NCQ SATA Hard Drives
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:53:30 +0100
Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com> wrote:
> 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
>
Thanks for the link Erik, much appreciated.
That clears it up a bit for me.
Pete
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