aljah

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Would current and older SATA hard drives suport the features like command queuing of SATA II when it comes?
 
I was under the impression that the command queing, and such was done by the hard drive, sort of a "smart" drive. I may have mis-read the article I saw on it, but it sounded like more of a hard drive feature, instead of a motherboard feature. So <b>I think</b> the answer is no.

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NCQ (native command queuing) already exists in SATA, however you have to have both a hard disk and southbridge that supports it.
Currently I only know of 2 drives that support it, the new maxtor drives (the ones with 16mb of cache) and some of the new seagate 7200.7's

The only southbridge that supports NCQ is intels ICH6, which can be found on the new LGA775 boards.