hmm, on Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 08:36:12AM -0500, Marco Peereboom said that > Well that sort of tells me that ahci hasn't caught up with all latest > chips. I will look at that acpicpu thing though.
the disk is in legacy ide mode (thru bios) because it's dual booted. when i tried throwing the switch to ahci the kernel made a salto mortale. i will try it again and post the result here. -f -- never say anything more predictive than "watch this!"