On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 08:29:37PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > The Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L has an ICH7, one PATA port, and four SATA > ports. This one now has the latest BIOS, F10. > > Is it possible to run AHCI on this motherboard and chipset?
Only some ICH7 chipsets are able to run with AHCI. Check the 'atapci' devices in the output of 'pciconf -lv'. Only if it says "subclass = SATA" below "class=mass storage", it is AHCI capable. This may be affected by BIOS settings, though. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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