On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 12:56:46PM -0500, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
> Switching to IDE mode on the Asus P5SD2-VM activates
> a weird chipset known as the SiS 1183.
>
> pciide1 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 vendor "SiS", unknown product 0x1183 rev
> 0x03: DMA (unsupported), channel 0 wired to native-
Loganaden Velvindron [logana...@devio.us] wrote:
>
> The SiS 1183 is weird in the sense that it shows as an
> IDE device when in fact, it's a SATA controller. I don't
> see any reason why this is necessary.
>
The physical interface is unimportant. The software interface is the same,
unless you
Switching to IDE mode on the Asus P5SD2-VM activates
a weird chipset known as the SiS 1183.
pciide1 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 vendor "SiS", unknown product 0x1183 rev 0x03:
DMA (unsupported), channel 0 wired to native-PCI, channel 1 wired to native-PCI
pciide1: using apic 1 int 17 for native-PCI i