Bug 157909: Unbootable system, affects many, apparently ignored

[Aaron C. de Bruyn]

Thank you for replying Markus.

This is the first time I've heard the term AHCI.
I did some googling and read up on it.  From what I understand, AHCI is a mode you can set in the BIOS.
I dug through the system BIOS and the BIOS on both cards and found no such setting.
The cards are extremely cheap soft-RAID cards that I purchased simply so I could get 8 400GB SATA drives into my server case.

So to answer "What stops you from switching to AHCI?" I would have to say to things:
1. No clue how to enable AHCI
2. If it's a BIOS setting, it appears my cards don't support it.

-Aaron


> Am 25.12.2007 um 23:35 schrieb Aaron C. de Bruyn:
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>> Can anyone provide me with some guidance on how to resolve this issue?  Am 
>> I overblowing the issue since I am affected?
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> Just to understand the problem better:
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> Exposing SATA drives as IDE drives to the OS appears to be a temporary 
> solution until all SATA driver programmers ( Hello Intel :-) ) have catched 
> up and made an AHCI driver available. Ubuntu runs in AHCI mode just fine, 
> even on a board which lacks a proper driver for Windows XP. AHCI is 
> noticeable faster than IDE.
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> What stops you from switching to AHCI?
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> Markus
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