Theodore Tso wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:05:05PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
By forcing AHCI, your PATA devices will be inaccessible, in a common
configuration. It also means shuffling users from one driver to another,
which induces breakage.
I was speaking wishfully. Real life intrudes, alas.
Not even as boot-time option? I'm curious whether it might allow me
to use AHCI mode on a T60p laptop; right now I can't because in AHCI
mode the Ultrabay hard drive device becomes invisible to Linux
(although not to Windows, interestingly). I'm currently travelling
and I don't carry the T60 around anymore, so I can't do the experiment
right this moment, but given that this would allow the T60 to take
advantage of ALPM if this works, it would be awfully tempting....
Oh sure, a boot-time option would be fine.
I want to spread AHCI far and wide; it is vastly superior to ata_piix in
many ways.
I was mainly talking about unconditionally changing behavior from the
current default, which presents several problems.
Jeff
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