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SubjectRe: No NCQ support on X61s Ultrabay? (Intel ICH8 SATA controller question)
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 02:47:02PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > So, at the point of driver load, there just isn't much we can do about
> > the missing ABAR. It's sad. Dunno why some laptop manufacturers
> > still program the thing into piix mode. :-(
>
> Forcing out of PIIX mode would need to go into the PCI quirks and be a
> boot option not a module one - at that point its doable as a header quirk.

I think Matthew Garrett already has code to do this.


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