Hello!
On 5/27/07, Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-05-26 23:36, HG wrote:
Hi!
On 5/25/07, Greg Freemyer
wrote: See http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html#matrix for the Sept. 06 status matrix. That should have been accurate for 10.2. Lots of big
Greg
I have just ordered a Promise SATA300 TX4plus. It was the only I can't find a TX4plus anywhere on the Promise website. Do you mean the TX4310?
That was what the shop gave as the Promise internal code. The link they gave, points here: http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?segment=undefined&product_id=139
Do you know more about the status as the table leaves me a little confused. The table says that the driver for above Promise does not support NCQ, new EH, hotplug or suspend. But when I scrolled up, the page says that: "Summary: No TCQ. Newer cards support NCQ. Full SATA control including hotplug and PM on all." What is confusing? The card supports these, but the driver does not. The comment you quoted about the sata_promise driver suggests that that TCQ will not be supported in the driver, because there is NCQ support in the cards.
I do not know if NCQ and TCQ are related in that way as you say - TCQ is something new to me and my drives do not support that (so, I wont get it even if the software would support it). Anyways, the Promise web-site (above) mentions that the card supports both NCQ and TCQ.
The notes after the table say this: "No, feature is not present. The hardware can support this feature, but driver code does not yet exist to support it." Note the word "yet".
That was the one word that I missed! 8-) Sorry about that. Yes, what I was confused about was, what the hardware supports and what the software supports now or in the future. Now it's clear.
In other words, stay tuned -- the support should be there sometime in the future. If you absolutely /must/ have all these now, then look for something that can use the ahci driver, or get a Silicon Image SiI3124 (presumably, though, most if not all of those will be more expensive than you suggest your budget allows).
I will stay tuned. Obviously I can live without those features (I mean, how did we store our data before NCQ and TCQ? :-) I'll stay with the card that I have selected. After all, I want reliable 4-port solution for home use with my own money... corporate would be different. So, all in all, I'm glad to know that what I selected is now supported by OpenSUSE. And in the future, I might even get better performance. Thanks! -- H -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org