Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:26:07 +0100
From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>,
       Riki Oktarianto <rkoktarianto@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add quirk to set AHCI mode on ICH boards
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On 09.11.2007 22:08, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
>> And on the topic of "broken" BIOSes. I have a little empathy for the MB 
>> manufactures as non-RAID AHCI royaly screws Windos, so not supporting it 
>> reduces their support costs enough to overlook screwing the non-windos 
>> faction.
>
> non-RAID AHCI works just fine on Windows.

And even if, that doesn't change the fact that there are BIOSes where 
you can't set AHCI-mode, like my MB @work.


Bis denn

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