RE: AMD 890GX vs 6Gbps SATA?

["Huang, Shane" <Shane.Huang@xxxxxxx>]

Hi James,

Can you send us your full dmesg and lspci?

I submitted one patch to support SATA AHCI 6Gbps message
in 2008, does your kernel contain it?

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commi
t;h=8522ee25f3a645577d41e71328cd4fcf8610dfeb


Thanks,
Shane

----- Forwarded message from James Cloos <cloos@xxxxxxxxxxx> -----

Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:50:41 -0500
From: James Cloos <cloos@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: linux-ide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: AMD 890GX vs 6Gbps SATA?
User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

All of the ad copy and doc I can find claim that the sata controller in
the 890gx supports 6Gbps sata3.  But I still get this:

ahci 0000:00:11.0: AHCI 0001.0200 32 slots 6 ports 3 Gbps 0x3f impl SATA
mode
ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata2.00: ATA-8: WDC WD1002FAEX-xxxxxx, 05.xxxxx, max UDMA/133

I hadn't noticed before because that box's first drive only supports 3
Gbps.

Does the 6Gpbs mode require that all of the disks are sata3?  (That
would
be /most/ annoying, given that optical drives all seem to be 1.5Gbps.)

Did MSI screw something up on the board?

Or is the ad copy exaggerative?

I took a look though the bios config; I didn't find anything relevant.

-JimC

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