ACHI support

Matthew Saltzman mjs at CLEMSON.EDU
Wed Aug 22 00:33:58 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 23:13 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > It seems Windows users have more trouble than Linux users and it appears 
> > if you are using RAID you can't use ACHI. It is implied that if you 
> > don't use ACHI the speed of data transfer will be reduced in Serial Hard 
> > Drives. So it is the old Lose-Lose situation where you never want to be.
> 
> Older Windows doesn't do AHCI without driver additions. Current Linux is
> happiest with AHCI and will do raid and non-raid with AHCI generally
> getting better performance too.

So in my case, is there a workaround to get it going?

82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller not detected on boot
in Thinkpad T61

> 
> Alan
> 
> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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