From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add quirk to set AHCI mode on ICH boards Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:01:12 -0500 Message-ID: <4735F1E8.1070009@rtr.ca> References: <20071109020235.GA2031@ceren> <20071109023129.GA25581@havoc.gtf.org> <4733D421.7000505@rtr.ca> <20071109034622.GB25581@havoc.gtf.org> <20071109120425.543971bf@the-village.bc.nu> <20071109233215.GA22498@citd.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:4203 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752856AbXKJSBR (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:01:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20071109233215.GA22498@citd.de> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Matthias Schniedermeyer Cc: Alan Cox , Jeff Garzik , Riki Oktarianto , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: >.. > My computer/mainboard @work has such a "broken" BIOS. Of the 5 > SATA-Ports this MB has only 1 (and 1 "missing" that is reported by linux > but i can't find on the MB) is configured as AHCI which means that with .. I have a P5B-VM here (very similar). The "missing" AHCI port is an eSATA connector on the back panel for this board. Maybe your board just has empty tracks where the connector would otherwise have been populated (?).