Yes, I can recommend Erik' s 9atom, too, it solved my problems with
installation onto a SATA-II HD some time ago...

Regards,
++pac

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 4:11 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>wrote:

> > Back to the Plan 9 install issue on native h/w.. does Plan 9 support SATA
> > controllers? My VBox VM also needed the HDD to be on the IDE controller.
>
> it does support ahci controllers.  vbox causes problems for a lot of oses,
> and that's probablly a bigger project.
>
> i'm going to guess this is a power management issue.  the ahci driver
> was written before the standard, and thus has been a little slow in
> catching up.
>
> could you try downloading 9atom, which is quite close to the distribution
> (http://ftp.quanstro.net/other/9atom.iso.bz2)?  it has a few power
> management wiggles that may fix your issue.
>
> - erik
>
>