On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 08:59:25AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > You did not specify whether I should be looking for a drive with NCQ or > > without NCQ. :-) > > Look for information on the SIL 3114. I don't own one, so I wouldn't know. > I know that, for my ICH5R boards, I need SATA 150 because of chipset > problems (I searched and read the errata datasheet from Intel), and NCQ > won't make a difference at all (because the chip doesn't implement TCQ or > NCQ). > > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16856152018 > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148065 > > > Do you think that I may run into problems with these? > > No idea. As I said, do the homework in google :-( I just pointed it out to > you that a Barracuda is not the same as other Barracuda unless you remember > to also ask the model. > > The ones in that blacklist in the kernel are ancient drives as far as these > things go :P So that blacklist is not worth much for making a decision. > > I'd get one of the newer 7200.8 (NCQ), there is no reason to believe the > 7200.9 would give you any advantage, and there might be compatibility > problems, and the NCQ versions of the 7200.8 have newer firmware _and_ are > newer drives so you get more warranty out of them :P > > Why don't you test the drives in the platform first, before buying them?
Just for a datapoint, I'm using two of the ST3250823AS models (the cuda 7200.8s that do support NCQ) on a 3112, and they work beautifully. IIRC the 3114 is only different from the 3112 in that it has four ports instead of two (correct me if I'm wrong of course) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
