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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com>,
	Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:58:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45A4FF0D.2090705@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070110143919.GH17269@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:25:00PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Combined mode is a technical term.  Judging from your answers, you are 
>> not using combined mode.
> 
> I would have thought 'sata 3.0 + IDE' sounded a lot like combined mode,
> unless it means seperate sata and ide.

Enhanced mode means separate SATA and PATA.

(I recommend avoiding the "IDE" acronym, it is largely meaningless and 
confusing these days)


>> Judging from your answers, you are not in AHCI mode.
>>
>> Side note:  You should use AHCI if available.  Emulating a PATA 
>> interface for SATA devices is error prone [in the silicon].  AHCI is 
>> native SATA, "enhanced mode" is not.
> 
> I tried setting my sister's new machine to AHCI mode (Asus P5B with 965
> chipset), but I eventually gave up since it also needed windows xp on it
> and I can't for the life of me find an AHCI driver for windows that
> would install.

Um, ok?

We're talking about Linux here.  Linux regularly supports hardware 
before Windows does.  This is nothing new.

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-10 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-09 20:46 SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18 Jeff V. Merkey
2007-01-09 20:51 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2007-01-09 21:39   ` Auke Kok
2007-01-09 22:11     ` Jeff V. Merkey
2007-01-09 22:59 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-09 23:35   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2007-01-09 23:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-09 23:34   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2007-01-10  0:25     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-10  0:13       ` Jeff V. Merkey
2007-01-10 14:39       ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-10 14:58         ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-01-10 15:15           ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-10 17:29         ` Prakash Punnoor
2007-01-10 17:47           ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-10 17:25             ` Jeff V. Merkey
2007-01-10 17:58               ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-10 18:17               ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-10 17:56             ` Prakash Punnoor
2007-01-10 18:00               ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-10 18:19               ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-10 18:33                 ` Prakash Punnoor
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     [not found]         ` <fa.knaXdjvwhsPCFpF5idaEG5sHhcM@ifi.uio.no>
2007-01-10 22:50           ` Robert Hancock

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