Re: [PATCH] Add quirk to set AHCI mode on ICH boards

Matthias Schniedermeyer
2007-11-10T18:38:28Z

On 10.11.2007 13:01, Mark Lord wrote:
> Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
>> ..
>> My computer/mainboard @work has such a "broken" BIOS. Of the 5 SATA-Ports
>> this MB has only 1 (and 1 "missing" that is reported by linux but i can't
>> find on the MB) is configured as AHCI which means that with
> ..
>
> I have a P5B-VM here (very similar).
> The "missing" AHCI port is an eSATA connector on the back panel
> for this board. Maybe your board just has empty tracks where
> the connector would otherwise have been populated (?).

Maybe, but that still doesn't "solve" my problem of the SATA-ports that
i have to drive by PIIX, instead of the more preferable AHCI.

Bis denn

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