your 'bug' is issue A). I think its more a design feature or side
effect, not an outright bug, but thats a nomenclature thing.
Seems like it is the way Intel chips are designed. One solution would be
to ensure that 64bit is used. However, due to cost I am sure many would
have gone for the 32bit machines with AHCI mode.
For the Realtek drive maybe you can try using
http://sourceforge.net/projects/realtekr1000
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