On 11.11.2007 15:05, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 10.11.2007 00:32, 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 [...] > > There is nothing "broken" here. You have a ICH8 (without R) that drives > four SATA ports, which are handled by ata_piix. > > Then you have a Jmicron JMB363 -- it handles the PATA-Channel and two > SATA-Ports -- one internal (near the battery)/next to the PCI-Slot and a > external eSATA port. Seems you configured it in AHCI-Mode in the > BIOS-Setup. Linux will work just fine if you connect the hard disc to > that port. But if you want to install Windows XP you need a driver from > Jmicron. > > There were BIOSes for the P5B where you could enabled AHCI for the ICH8 > as well. It seems Asus removed it in the later BIOS-versions again as > Intel doesn't provide a Windows-AHCI driver for the basic ICH8. I don't have an P5B @work, but i guess MSI cooks with water too. :-) But i have a (1 year old) P5B @home and it is exactly like you said. My main point is still the same, if Linux could force AHCI mode, i wouldn't have to switch between those modes when booting Wintendo to play some games. (And i could use AHCI @work where i can't switch it in BIOS) On a side note, with the mainboard i had before the P5B (ASUS, 925X Chipset, ICH 6 or 7) Linux worked in AHCI-mode and Wintendo worked also without problems. (IOW: I did not need to switch modes in BIOS!) 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
