Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Playing with SATA NCQ | From | Erik Slagter <> | Date | Sun, 29 May 2005 19:26:31 +0200 |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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