On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:25:00PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Combined mode is a technical term. Judging from your answers, you are > not using combined mode.
I would have thought 'sata 3.0 + IDE' sounded a lot like combined mode, unless it means seperate sata and ide. > Judging from your answers, you are not in AHCI mode. > > Side note: You should use AHCI if available. Emulating a PATA > interface for SATA devices is error prone [in the silicon]. AHCI is > native SATA, "enhanced mode" is not. I tried setting my sister's new machine to AHCI mode (Asus P5B with 965 chipset), but I eventually gave up since it also needed windows xp on it and I can't for the life of me find an AHCI driver for windows that would install. -- Len Sorensen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
