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SubjectRe: Playing with SATA NCQ
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On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 18:57 +0200, Michael Thonke wrote:

> >Another question: is there a fundamental problem to have the ICH6/7
> >enabled AHCI mode by the kernel instead of the BIOS? I know some BIOSes
> >don't offer the choice to enable AHCI (like mine :-().

> here on my Mainboard ASUS P5WAD2-Premium (i955X/ICH7) I need to enable
> AHCI support like on the ICH6R based ASUS P5AD2-E xx the same here.
> What I have noticed is when I enable Intel Raid support AHCI is on by
> default, maybe it used AHCI if drive is capable?!

AHCI is needed for "raid"-support.

> What mainboard are you using Erik? All mainboards with ICH6R I saw and
> had (925X,925XE) offer options to enable AHCI.

ICH6M (mobile/no raid) on a Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop. AFAIK there are
no plans to implement support for AHCI transition in the BIOS. &^$##($%
DELL.
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