On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Peder Hedlund <peder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Quoting Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx>: > >>> So far, all new PC's I've encountered still have drivers for XP if you >>> go to their website. >>> The trick to recognizing SATA is to set it to "Compatible" instead of >>> "Native" in BIOS. Once you've installed the proper driver you can set >>> it back to Native. >> >> Nahh...didn't work on these Intel motherboards. I tried all three >> modes available in BIOS. None of them worked. > > I got a Lenovo M58 today with an Intel MoBo and the trick there was to > disable AHCI in the SATA settings. After that I had no problem booting and > installing with my XP-SP3 CD. > > - Peder Congrats on getting it working. My understanding about going that way was that WRT Windows, once non-AHCI, always non-AHCI. Linux was easy. I built support for everything into the kernel and can change BIOS anytime. I'll be interested in your experiences as you go forward. Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
