Török Edwin wrote: > If there is a document describing _exactly_ what steps I need to follow to > properly enable the device, I'd be happy to read it, but I guess such > documentation is only available to BIOS developers. It all depends on how BIOS set up the controller / IO regions during boot and even worse BIOS might expect certain configuration when ACPI suspend/resume or shutdown transition is requested. I don't really think we can include AHCI force-enable in the mainline. It's just too risky without too much benefit. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html