Yes, I can recommend Erik&#39; s 9atom, too, it solved my problems with installation onto a SATA-II HD some time ago...<br><br>Regards,<br>++pac<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 4:11 PM, erik quanstrom <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:quanstro@quanstro.net" target="_blank">quanstro@quanstro.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">&gt; Back to the Plan 9 install issue on native h/w.. does Plan 9 support SATA<br>
&gt; controllers? My VBox VM also needed the HDD to be on the IDE controller.<br>
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</div>it does support ahci controllers.  vbox causes problems for a lot of oses,<br>
and that&#39;s probablly a bigger project.<br>
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i&#39;m going to guess this is a power management issue.  the ahci driver<br>
was written before the standard, and thus has been a little slow in<br>
catching up.<br>
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could you try downloading 9atom, which is quite close to the distribution<br>
(<a href="http://ftp.quanstro.net/other/9atom.iso.bz2" target="_blank">http://ftp.quanstro.net/other/9atom.iso.bz2</a>)?  it has a few power<br>
management wiggles that may fix your issue.<br>
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- erik<br>
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