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 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. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100703022410.gc20...@khazad-dum.debian.net