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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sat,  6 Dec 2014 23:26:06 -0800
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9 Atom - installation troubles
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On Sat Dec  6 21:13:34 PST 2014, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
> > your sata is supported, but you'll need to switch to ahci mode.
> >
> >> 	0.31.2:	disk 01.01.8a 8086/27c0   0 0:00000001 16 1:00000001 16 2:00000001 16 3:00000001 16 4:0000ffa1 16
> >> 		Intel Corporation 	NM10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [IDE mode]
>
> The web seems to think that the South Bridge supporting the IDE chip
> does not provide AHCI mode.

usually there is an option in bios to load the ahci firmware instead of the
ide emulation.  some vendors don't provide this option.

- erik