Re: Enabling AHCI on ICH7 without BIOS support

Tejun Heo wrote: Hello, Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault wrote: Hello, I am the owner of a Dell Latitude D620 notebook with an ICH7 SATA controller, unfortunately, the BIOS does not offer the option of using native mode instead of compatibility mode when it comes to SATA. For now

ICH7: proposition for supporting AHCI along with native IDE

Hello, Early experimentation on my part seems to show that it is possible to put an ICH SATA controller booted in SATA compatibility mode in full native AHCI mode. The drawback of having the ICH7 chip in AHCI mode is that the PATA ports are not claimed or used by any driver, rendering the

Enabling AHCI on ICH7 without BIOS support

Hello, I am the owner of a Dell Latitude D620 notebook with an ICH7 SATA controller, unfortunately, the BIOS does not offer the option of using native mode instead of compatibility mode when it comes to SATA. For now, the ata_piix runs happily in compatibility mode. Looking at the ICH7