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Using AHCI 1.22 on eCS 2.1. I have a 300GB SATA II hard drive. When I try to long format it JFS it gets to about 74% complete, then a loud 3 tone tune is played over and over on the motherboard speaker and the computer is hung. If I do this in IDE mode, the format completes with no trouble.

In newsgroups I have seen other people report this same problem.

Hardware: Asus M5A88-V EVO + AMD quad-core CPU 2 x 500GB SATA drives connected to motherboard ports 2 x SCSI hard disks and one SCSI tape drive attached to LSILogic PCI card

This all works with OS2AHCI ver. 1.25, but with ver. 1.28 or 1.29 there is intermittent disk activity while the eCS splash screen is displayed, then the hd activity LED shows "solid" for quite a while, then nothing: the machine will not continue booting.

When I build Firefox, I usually have gmake run two processes in parallel ('-j2') and it takes 38 minutes. With NCQ enabled, it takes 45 minutes. I just tried a build running four processes ('-j4'). Without NCQ, it took 33 minutes; with NCQ, it was 39.5 minutes.

I frequently use the "deltree" util to delete my entire build tree which has 100,000(?) files in several thousand directories. With NCQ, it is noticeably slower (almost painfully slow).

The system:

• Intel DG43GT board with a "G43 Express" chipset including an 82801JIB I/O controller ("ICH10")
• Core2 Quad @ 2.5gnz with VT (Q8300 SLGUR)
• 2gb memory
• Seagate ST3500418AS 500gb drive using JFS with a 64mb cache
• eCS 2.0 using os2ahci.add copied from my 2.1 installation