From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: Supporting ACPI drive hotswap
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 15:45:45 -0400
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 >Do you know why the ahci driver won't load?

Undoubtedly the chip is being used in "combined mode",
to support a PATA ATAPI device on the second channel.

For that matter, the primary HD is probably actually PATA,
perhaps with a SATA bridge on the notebook M/B.

Very very common arrangement these days -- practically all
Sonoma Centrino chipset notebooks are set up like this.

Cheers