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Re: SATA disk detected as IDE? SOLVED



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.

TIA

> > 
> > 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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Paul E Condon           
pecondon@mesanetworks.net


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