Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flashIDE chip under 2.6.18

[Jeff Garzik]

Prakash Punnoor wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 10 Januar 2007 18:47 schrieb Lennart Sorensen:
> > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 06:29:28PM +0100, Prakash Punnoor wrote:
> > > You can install the Intel Matrix driver after "adjusting" the inf file...
> > Hmm, I guess a good question is: Why should I have to edit the inf file?
> > Is it an issue of them making it only install if your hardware is
> > already set to ahci mode?  But how am I supposed to boot and install the
> > driver until I have the driver installed then.  Well I might try that
> > next time I go there.  How stupid of intel.
>
> Intel wants you to buy hw with ICH8R. ICH8 isn't get the advanced features for 
> free....

What advanced features do you claim are missing from ICH8?

The 'R' indicates software RAID, provided by BIOS and a software driver. 
 Which uses the standard AHCI programming interface.  ICH8 provides 
AHCI, just like ICH8R does.

	Jeff



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