From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthias Schniedermeyer Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add quirk to set AHCI mode on ICH boards Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:26:07 +0100 Message-ID: <20071110112607.GA25971@citd.de> 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> <47352095.4010502@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47352095.4010502@garzik.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Alan Cox , Mark Lord , Riki Oktarianto , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On 09.11.2007 22:08, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: >> And on the topic of "broken" BIOSes. I have a little empathy for the MB >> manufactures as non-RAID AHCI royaly screws Windos, so not supporting it >> reduces their support costs enough to overlook screwing the non-windos >> faction. > > non-RAID AHCI works just fine on Windows. And even if, that doesn't change the fact that there are BIOSes where you can't set AHCI-mode, like my MB @work. Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous.