Jeff Garzik wrote:
Intel ICH boards can be driven using either the ata_piix or the ahci
driver, depending on BIOS mode. Most likely, when you switched to SATA
mode in BIOS, it started programming the motherboard to boot in
IDE-compatible mode (ata_piix) rather than SATA FIS mode (ahci).
So, this could apply to Dell Dimension 9150 as well?
I only have limited experience with Gentoo (used at work), so I'm not
sure what's actually what as yet on those boxes.
However, using stock BIOS setup, i.e. SATA mode, I couldn't install
Slackware test26 (2.6 kernel), which use libata.
Didn't have time to investigate further.
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Kind regards,
Mogens Valentin
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