Matthew Burgess wrote: ...
But as you mentioned the NV SATA driver in your prior message, I'm not sure you'll get any of the benefits of NCQ, etc. IIRC only AHCI chipset has a full SATA feature-set in the kernel. There's some info at
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Hmm... Didn't know that. But my mainboard also has four SATA ports driven by a Silicon Image 3124 controller, which actually has "Full TCQ/NCQ support". I would have to plug the disks into these ports, and somehow disable the mainboard's raid, I guess. (I think those four ports are designated "sata raid ports" or something by the mainboard manufacturer.) Will have to get my usual environment up and running first though... Speaking of which... I was going to take a look at the BLFS (devel.) book, and start installing my usual tools, just as I did before for LFS. (I.e., installing whatever X depends on, X itself, emacs, netpbm and so on.) What I hadn't contemplated was the problem of distinguishing between 32bit and 64 bit libraries, library locations in a dual 32/64 system etc. - Is it foolhardy to just go ahead and follow BLFS to the letter? - ...or should I try to add --libdir=/lib64 etc. as much as possible when installing things? - ... or is there some unofficial "BLFS for dual i386/x86_64 systems" around somewhere? :-) - ... and what are the odds of such a "mixed & messy" combo-system actually working, one week from now? :-) I just realized that it took me about 30 seconds to get my new shiny system messy by installing a 64bit libpng in 32bit locations... (probably. I'm not sure, but suspect so, since I followed the BLFS instructions without any modification and default gcc is x86_64...) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
