>>> I suppose it's not possible to configure ahcisata in the BIOS on >>> the long-delay machines? >> I would not have thought to look for that; I would not have expected >> piixide and ahcisata to be similar enough that a BIOS setting could >> personality-swap between them. > IIRC, they are not really that similar. But the dmesg excerpt you > cited had piixide at *Intel 6 Series Serial ATA Controller*. So, > clearly, the device had to support ahci mode. Well, "clearly" for > those in the know.
Indeed! Still, I wouldn't've thought to look for it because I wasn't aware there was *any* hardware that could personality-flip like that. For someone familiar with that hardware, or with other hardware that can do it, it'd be a reasonable thing - I guess those are your "those in the know"! Which didn't include me. At least until now. :-) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
