NCQ SATA drives compatibility?

[jamawass]

Are NCQ SATA Hard drives compatible with all sata controllers? I have a MSI K8T Neo mobo which was manufactured before ncq drives hit the market. Will I need a BIOS update? Thanks for any input

 

[dew042]

from: http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=ncq300&page=1&cookie%5Ftest=1

"The reason why NCQ has not been a major factor until now is that in order to utilize it, both the hard drive and the Serial ATA controller need to support the technology. Many first generation Serial ATA controllers were simply modified Ultra ATA/133 controller designs with a new Serial ATA interface, and did not support NCQ technology. This meant that even if you had purchased a NCQ enabled drive, you still could not utilize the full functionality of these drives. However, with two of the industry's largest chipset designers now have NCQ support in their latest products, spanning across both the Intel Pentium 4 and AMD Athlon64 platforms, NCQ is finally ready to hit mainstream."

 

[imported_whatever]

it will work fine, but you will not get the benefits of ncq