Re: Some NCQ numbers...

From: Dan Aloni
Date: Wed Jul 04 2007 - 11:44:21 EST


On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 02:51:58PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>[..]
> Test machine was using MPTSAS driver for the following card:
> SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 02)
>
> Pretty similar results were obtained on an AHCI controller:
> SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller AHCI (rev 01)
> on another machines.

Are you sure that NCQ was enabled between the controller and drive?
Did you verify this? I know about some versions that disable NCQ
support internally in their firmware (something to do with bugs in
error handling).

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Dan Aloni
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da-x (at) monatomic.org, dan (at) xiv.co.il
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