SATA hardware features

This is an attempt to enumerate key Serial ATA hardware features, as correlated with various SATA controller chips and Linux drivers.

Vendor	Chip	Driver	NCQ	DMA++	hotplug	PMP
AMD	SB600	ahci	AHCI	AHCI	AHCI	yes[1]
AMD	SB7x0	ahci	AHCI	AHCI	AHCI	yes

Apple	K2	sata_svw	no	yes	yes	no
Broadcom	BCM5785	sata_svw	yes	yes	yes	no

Initio	INIC-162x	sata_inic162x	yes[2]	yes	yes	?

Intel	ICH5 family	ata_piix	no	no	no	no
Intel	ICH6 family	ata_piix, ahci	AHCI	AHCI	AHCI	no
Intel	ICH7 family	ata_piix, ahci	AHCI	AHCI	AHCI	no
Intel	ICH8 family	ata_piix, ahci	AHCI	AHCI	AHCI	yes
Intel	ICH9 family	ata_piix, ahci	AHCI	AHCI	AHCI	yes
Intel	ICH10 family	ata_piix, ahci	AHCI	AHCI	AHCI	yes

JMicron	JMB36x	ahci	AHCI	AHCI	AHCI	yes

Marvell	88SX5040, 88SX5080	sata_mv	no	yes	yes	no
Marvell	88SX6040, 88SX6080	sata_mv	yes	yes	yes	no
Marvell	88SX6042, 88SX7042	sata_mv	yes	yes	yes	yes

nVidia	nForce2, nForce3	sata_nv	no	no	yes	no
nVidia	nForce4 (CK804/MCP04)	sata_nv	yes	yes	yes	no
nVidia	nForce MCP51/MCP55/MCP61	sata_nv	yes	no	yes	no
nVidia	nForce MCP65 and later	ahci	yes	yes	yes	?

Promise	PDC2037x	sata_promise	no	yes	yes	no
Promise	PDC2057x	sata_promise	yes	yes	yes	no
Promise	PDC40518	sata_promise	yes	yes	yes	no
Promise	PDC20619	sata_promise	?	yes	no	no

Promise	PDC20621	sata_sx4	no	yes	no	no

Silicon Image	SiI311x, SiI3512	sata_sil	no	sorta	yes	no

Silicon Image	SiI3124, SiI3132, SiI3531	sata_sil24	yes	yes	yes	yes

SiS	96x	sata_sis	no	no	no	no

ULi	M1573, M1575, M1697(528x)	sata_uli	no	no	no	no

VIA	VT642x	sata_via	no	no	no	no

Intel	GD31244	sata_vsc	yes	no	no	no
Vitesse	VSC7174	sata_vsc	yes	no	no	no

Key:

Chip	the chip, or chip family, associated with this row of data
Driver	Linux driver(s)
NCQ	Supports FPDMA
DMA++	DMA engine is more advanced than standard PCI IDE BMDMA engine.
hotplug	Supports interrupt-driven device hotplug and hot unplug. Note that hotplug can often be "hacked" via polling, even if hardware does not natively support it.
PMP	Supports SATA port multipliers.

Notes

[1]Port multiplier NOT supported in SB600 ASIC revisions A12 and A11

[2]Not supported by the driver yet