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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: bug: AHCI: Serial ATA to CompactFlash adapter loops endlessly
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:47:15 -0500
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To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
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Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
>
> The other problem I'm finding is that this new motherboard doesn't want to 
> use AHCI, regardless of the settings of the BIOS.  The old IDE drivers will 
> only work in PIO mode on this chipset (an ICH7, I think), making it difficult 
> to compare things.

The libata "ata_piix" driver should work with that chipset,
as an alternative to the drivers/ide stuff.