View source for SATA hardware features

This table displays key Serial ATA hardware features, as correlated with various SATA controller chips and Linux drivers.  ''See [[#Key|key]] below.''

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!Vendor!!Chip!!Driver!!NCQ||DMA++||hotplug||PMP||PMP SM||AN||NS||NQM
|-
|Acard||ATP8620||[[acard_ahci|acard-ahci]]||AHCI<ref name="notyetdriver">Not supported by the driver yet</ref>||AHCI||AHCI<ref name="notyetdriver"/>||yes||FBS <ref>When all 15 devices are attached at PMPs, only 8 devices can use FBS, the rest are limited to CBS.</ref>||yes||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Agere / LSI||NASx00, NASx01||none <ref name="nodriveryet">Currently, no driver has been released for this SATA controller yet</ref>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|ALi||M3383, M3603||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Ambarella||iOne||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|AMCC||460EX||[[sata_dwc_460ex]]||yes <ref name="notyetdriver"/>||?||?||no||n/a||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|-
|AMD||A50M, A60M, A70M||[[AHCI|ahci]]||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes||CBS||yes||no||no
|-
|AMD||A55E||ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes||FBS||yes||no||no
|-
|AMD||A45||ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes||CBS||yes||n/a||n/a
|-
|AMD||A55, A75||ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes||FBS||yes||no||no
|-
|AMD||SB600||ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes <ref>Port multiplier NOT supported in SB600 ASIC revisions A12 and A11</ref><ref>Total number of SATA drives connected directly to the host and behind the port multiplier should not exceed 4</ref>||CBS||yes||n/a||n/a
|-
|AMD||SB7x0, SP5100||ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes||CBS||yes||n/a||n/a
|-
|AMD||SB810||ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes||CBS||yes||n/a||n/a
|-
|AMD||SB820M||ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes||CBS||yes||no||no
|-
|AMD||SB850||ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes||FBS||yes||no||no
|-
|AMD||SB920||ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes||CBS||yes||no||no
|-
|AMD||SB950||ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes||FBS||yes||no||no
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Amlogic||AML8726-M||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|-
|ASMedia||ASM1061||ahci <ref name="drivergeneric">Generic support via PCI class code match</ref>||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes||?||?||no||no
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Broadcom||BCM7038, BCM7205, BCM7316, BCM7335, BCM7400, BCM7400B, BCM7401, BCM7405, BCM7410, BCM7413, BCM7420, BCM7440||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|-
|Broadcom / Apple|| BCM5770, BCM5770R / K2, Shasta||sata_svw||no||yes||yes <ref name="notyetdriver"/>||no||n/a||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|Broadcom||HT1000(BCM5785), HT1100(BCM11000)||sata_svw||yes <ref name="notyetdriver"/>||yes||yes <ref name="notyetdriver"/>||no||n/a||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|C2 Microsystems||CC1100||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Cavium||CNS3xxx||[[ahci_cns3xxx]]||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Celestial / Cavium||CNC1800H||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Conexant / NXP||CX24162, CX24163, CX2417x, CX2425x, CX2427x, CX24500||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Core Logic||CLM5520F||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Freescale||i.MX535||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes||CBS||yes||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Freescale||MPC8315E, MPC8377E, MPC8379E, MPC8536E, <br>P1022, P3041, P5020||[[sata_fsl]]||yes <ref>Maximum NCQ depth is limited to 16 outstanding entries</ref>||?||yes||yes||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Fujitsu||MB86H610, MB86H611||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Grain Media||GM8181||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|HiSilicon||Hi3515||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Ikanos||Fusiv Vx185||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|infraNT||IT1004, IT1008, IT3102, IT3107||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|-
|Initio||INIC-162x||[[sata_inic162x]]||yes <ref name="notyetdriver"/>||yes||yes||?||?||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Intel||CE2110||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Intel||CE3100||ata_piix, ahci, none <ref>Stepping A0 is not supported by the current drivers because workarounds are needed to fix errata</ref>||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||no||n/a||yes <ref name="AHCI_RAID_only">Supported only by some components in AHCI or RAID mode</ref>||n/a||n/a
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Intel||CE4xx0||ahci<ref name="drivergeneric"/>||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Intel||EP80579||[[ata_piix]], ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||?||?||yes||n/a||n/a
|-
|Intel||ICH5 family, 6300ESB||ata_piix||no||no||no||no||n/a||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|Intel||ICH6 family, 631xESB, 632xESB, 3100||ata_piix, ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||no||n/a||yes <ref name="AHCI_RAID_only"/>||n/a||n/a
|-
|Intel||ICH7 family, NM10||ata_piix, ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||no||n/a||yes <ref name="AHCI_RAID_only"/>||n/a||n/a
|-
|Intel||ICH8 family||ata_piix, ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||no||no||no <ref name="broken">Disabled by the respective driver usually because of hardware flaw or bogus feature</ref>||n/a||n/a
|-
|Intel||ICH9 family||ata_piix, ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||ICH9R and ICH9DO only <ref name="IntelSPMCAP">Depends on chip variants. SPM bit in the CAP register is set if supported.</ref>||CBS||yes <ref name="AHCI_RAID_only"/>||n/a||n/a
|-
|Intel||ICH10 family||ata_piix, ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||ICH10R only <ref name="IntelSPMCAP"/>||CBS||yes <ref name="AHCI_RAID_only"/>||n/a||n/a
|-
|Intel||PCH EG20T||ahci<ref name="drivergeneric"/>||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes||CBS||yes||n/a||n/a
|-
|Intel||PCH SM35||ahci<ref name="drivergeneric"/>||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|Intel||PCH x5x, xx5x, 34x0 family||ata_piix, ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes <ref>Port multiplier NOT supported in 3400 Chipset</ref>||FBS <ref name="Intel_port45fbs"/>||yes||n/a||n/a
|-
|Intel||PCH x6x, xx6x, C20x family||ata_piix, ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes||FBS <ref name="Intel_port45fbs">Port multiplier is supported only on SATA port 4 and 5 in AHCI or RAID mode</ref>||yes||no||no
|-
|Intel||PCH 82H67 ("H67 Express Chipset")||ata_piix, ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes||CBS||yes|| || 
|-
|Intel||X79||ata_piix, ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes||FBS||yes||no||no
|-
|
|-
|JMicron||JMB36x||ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes||CBS||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Magnum Semiconductor||MS8615||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|-
|Marvell||88SE6121||ahci||no<ref name="broken"/>||?||?||no<ref name="broken"/>||n/a||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|Marvell||88SE6145||ahci||no<ref name="broken"/>||?||?||no<ref name="broken"/>||n/a||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|Marvell||88SE9128/9125/9123/9120/9111/9110||ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes||FBS<ref>Possible hardware bug exposed by recent kernels [http://marc.info/?t=130747326400001&r=1&w=2]</ref>||yes||no||no
|-
|Marvell||88SE9130||ahci<ref name="drivergeneric"/>||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes||FBS||yes||no||no
|-
|
|-
|Marvell||88SX504x, 88SX508x||sata_mv||no||yes||yes||no||n/a||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|Marvell||88SX6040, 88SX6080||sata_mv||yes||yes||yes||no||n/a||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|Marvell||88SX6041, 88SX6081||sata_mv||yes||yes||yes||yes||CBS||yes <ref>Asynchronous Notification NOT supported on revisions Bx</ref>||n/a||n/a
|-
|Marvell||88SX6042, 88SX7042||sata_mv||yes||yes||yes||yes||FBS||yes||n/a||n/a
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Marvell||88AP510, 88F5182, 88F6192, 88F6281||sata_mv||yes||yes||yes||yes||FBS||yes||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|NEC / Renesas||uPD61290, uPD61291, MC-10092, MC-10121||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|-
|nVidia||nForce2, nForce3||sata_nv||no||no||yes||no||n/a||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|nVidia||nForce4 (CK804, MCP04)||sata_nv||yes||yes||yes||no||n/a||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|nVidia||nForce MCP51, MCP55, MCP61||sata_nv||yes <ref>NCQ NOT supported in MCP61</ref>||no||yes||no||n/a||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|-
|nVidia||nForce MCP65 , MCP67, MCP68, MCP72, MCP73, <br>MCP77, MCP78, MCP79, MCP7A, MCP82||ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||no<ref name="broken"/>||n/a||yes||n/a||n/a
|-
|nVidia||nForce MCP89 and later||ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes||?||yes||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|NUFRONT||NS2816||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|NXP||PNX8332, PNX8335, PNX8336||pnx833x-sata <ref name="DriverInDevelopment">Driver is under development</ref>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|NXP / Trident||PNX8472, PNX8473, PNX8932, PNX8935||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Oxford Semiconductor / PLX Technology||OXE800SE, OXE800DSE||ox800sata<ref name="DriverInDevelopment"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Oxford Semiconductor / PLX Technology||OXE810SE, OXE810DSE||ox810sata <ref name="DriverInDevelopment"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|-
|Promise||PDC2037x||sata_promise||no||yes||yes||no||n/a||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|Promise||PDC2057x||sata_promise||yes||yes||yes||no||n/a||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|Promise||PDC40518||sata_promise||yes||yes||yes||no||n/a||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|Promise||PDC20619||sata_promise||?||yes||no||no||n/a||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|-
|Promise||PDC20621||sata_sx4||no||yes||no||no||n/a||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Realtek||RTD1073||sata_mars<ref name="DriverInDevelopment"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Renesas||SH7776||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|-
|ROHM / OKI||ML7213, ML7223, ML7223V||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|SAMSUNG||Exynos 4210||ahci_platform||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|SAMSUNG||SDP93||sata_aspen<ref name="DriverInDevelopment"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Sigma Designs||SMP864x, SMP865x||sata_tango3<ref name="DriverInDevelopment"/>||no||no||no||no||n/a||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|-
|Silicon Image / ATI||SiI311x, SiI3512 / SB300, SB300C, SB4x0||[[sata_sil]]||no||sorta||yes <ref name="notyetdriver"/>||no||n/a||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|-
|Silicon Image||SiI3124, SiI3132, SiI3531||[[sata_sil24]]||yes||yes||yes||yes||FBS||yes||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|-
|SiS||180, 964, 965||sata_sis||no||no||no||no||n/a||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|SiS||966||sata_sis, ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|SiS||968||sata_sis, ahci||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||no||n/a||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|-
|SiS||XSB||sata_xenon<ref name="DriverInDevelopment"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Skyviia||SV8860||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|-
|ST||ConneXt STA2X11, STA2X10||ahci<ref name="drivergeneric"/>||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|ST||SPEAr1310, SPEAr1340||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes||CBS||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|ST||STi7109||sata_stm<ref name="DriverInDevelopment"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Telechips||TCC8801, TCC890x||sata_snps<ref name="DriverInDevelopment"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|Telechips||TCC9302||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|TI||AM1808, OMAP-L138||ahci_platform||AHCI||AHCI||AHCI||yes||CBS||yes||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|-
|ULi||M1575||ahci||yes||AHCI||yes||no||n/a||yes||n/a||n/a
|-
|ULi||M1573, M1697(528x)||sata_uli||no||no||no||no||n/a||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|-
|VIA||CX700, VX700 family||[[pata_via]]||?||?||?||yes||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|VIA||VX800, VX800UT||pata_via||?||?||?||yes||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|VIA||VX900||sata_via||no||no||yes||yes||no||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|VIA||VT642x||[[sata_via]]||no||no||no||no||n/a||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|VIA||VT8237 family||sata_via||no||no||yes||no||n/a||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|VIA||VT8251||sata_via, ahci||no<ref name="broken"/>||AHCI||yes||no<ref name="broken"/>||no||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|VIA||VT8261||sata_via||no||no||yes||no||no||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|-
|Intel||GD31244||sata_vsc||yes||no||no||no||n/a||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|Vitesse||VSC7174||sata_vsc||yes||no||no||no||n/a||no||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|ViXS||XCodeHD 3390, XCode 4111, XCode 4115||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|-
|
|- style="background-color: #BADBEE"
|ZORAN||SupraXD 170, SupraXD 180||none <ref name="nodriveryet"/>||?||?||?||?||?||?||n/a||n/a
|}

===Key===
{|
|Chip||Integrated Circuit or IC family, associated with this column 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_multiplier port multipliers]
|-
|SM||PMP Switching Method
|-
|&nbsp;&nbsp;CBS||&nbsp;&nbsp;Supports Command Based Switching port multiplier
|-
|&nbsp;&nbsp;FBS||&nbsp;&nbsp;Supports FIS Based Switching port multiplier
|-
|AN||Asynchronous Notification (Serial ATA II feature)
|-
|NS||NCQ Streaming (Serial ATA 3.0 feature)
|-
|NQM||NCQ Queue Management (Serial ATA 3.0 feature)
|}

SoC ICs have their line highlighted with colour to avoid confusion as those are special low power devices suited for specific tasks and provide minimal user interaction

== Notes ==

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