Pierre Beyssac wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 08:59:32PM +0200, Alexander Motin wrote: >> Except ICH6 Intel uses separate IDs for AHCI and non-AHCI SATA >> controller modes. So this flag is not completely correct. But probably >> it shoudn't be just removed, as it is checked in other place. I know >> about this and going to handle it later. It's not a problem now. > > I was wondering exactly about that given the wording of the Intel > document sent by Jeremy... > >>> http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/specupdate/322170.pdf >> Thanks. >> PS: Check BIOS settings for enabling AHCI mode. > > Problem is, I can't find any setting to do that, either it's not > there or it's well hidden. The BIOS is up-to-date. Could it be > possible for Dell to lock the chip in non-AHCI mode?
It is BIOS job to configure SATA controller mode. It is difficult to do from driver level and very vendor-specific. Yes, it happens sometimes to see BIOSes without AHCI support. -- Alexander Motin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
