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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:00:16 -0500
From: "Beene, William R." <beenewilliamr@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Intel 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:22 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> > Hi, I'm trying to install Plan 9 on my laptop and Plan 9 can't see my
>  > SATA drives.
>  > Linux reports the SATA controller as an Intel 82801FBM. I have
>  > searched 9fans and
>  > found that there may be some hope in getting this to work from the
>  > following post:
>  > http://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=115882643305112&w=2
>
>  intel sata mode is not supported.  this device was produced before
>  intel used the ahci interface.  ahci is supported.
>
>  however, there ought to be a bios configuration option to allow your
>  sata drive appear like a legacy ide drive.
>
>  - erik
>

Thanks a lot for the information. My bios has very, very few options
and I already
looked for that one.

Thanks,
William Beene