> But the important thing here is: should it work with just the > AHCI kernel support? I tested it with 2 machines and it gave me the > same behaviour. If you have the device name right (and if you are not using labels remember it might change depending upon whether the pata port has disks or not), your controller is in AHCI mode in the BIOS and your disk is on the SATA cables then yes. And in those cases it should always use the AHCI driver for those devices even if the PIIX driver is also present Alan -- 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