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 > > 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 -- 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/4c2ec329.6080...@hardwarefreak.com