From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sean Subject: Re: does AHCI work on intel 915 ICH6 controllers? Is it supposed to? Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 09:53:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <42A7A191.7040700@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:20131 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262385AbVFIOb1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:31:27 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DgNhl-0005kB-Hl for linux-ide@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 16:08:21 +0200 Received: from ool-4356fcdd.dyn.optonline.net ([67.86.252.221]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 16:08:21 +0200 Received: from seandarcy2 by ool-4356fcdd.dyn.optonline.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 16:08:21 +0200 In-Reply-To: <42A7A191.7040700@pobox.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: [...........] > Plain vanilla ICH6 does not support AHCI, but other ICH6 variants such > as ICH6-R do. If your chip does support AHCI, then your BIOS is not > enabling it. > > AHCI support is clearly indicated by Region 5, a memory (MMIO) region: > >> Region 0: I/O ports at e880 [size=8] >> Region 1: I/O ports at e800 [size=4] >> Region 2: I/O ports at e480 [size=8] >> Region 3: I/O ports at e400 [size=4] >> Region 4: I/O ports at e080 [size=32] >> Region 5: Memory at feb3fc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] > > > Regards, > > Jeff > Thanks for the quick response. I've sent another request to gigabyte for a BIOS update. Fat chance. sean