On 10.11.2007 13:01, Mark Lord wrote: > Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: >> .. >> My computer/mainboard @work has such a "broken" BIOS. Of the 5 SATA-Ports >> this MB has only 1 (and 1 "missing" that is reported by linux but i can't >> find on the MB) is configured as AHCI which means that with > .. > > I have a P5B-VM here (very similar). > The "missing" AHCI port is an eSATA connector on the back panel > for this board. Maybe your board just has empty tracks where > the connector would otherwise have been populated (?). Maybe, but that still doesn't "solve" my problem of the SATA-ports that i have to drive by PIIX, instead of the more preferable AHCI. Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. - 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