<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Op 2010/06/21 01:03 nm, het Wesley Werner geskryf: <blockquote cite="mid:AANLkTinLFIyqDdAvdhmW7Wo06IpICyQO6iujUExaHVB2@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Dave Lizamore <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:dave.lizamore@gmail.com">dave.lizamore@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div id=":fr" class="ii gt">. Both Ubuntu 10.04 and Mint 9.0 now only supports the AHCI<br> protocol for accessing SATA2 drives and not the IDE protocol.. Win Xp<br> supports IDE, but is too old to support AHCI</div> </blockquote> </div> <br> <div>I should point out that AHCI doesn't give performance benefits, it's an interface for ATA device coms and hot-swappable configurations. I can see why the Linux Kernel pushed to support this, since kernel <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">2.6.19, so this support falls on a lower level Ubuntu specifically. It is still too new to be supported out-the-box by Windows XP, as you discovered, but at the time AHCI did not exist either, and so we suffer from OS/Hardware incompatibility.  </span></div> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><br> </span></div> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">I think going forward we will have to put up with the clunky hardware designs. What I don't understand is how come Linux didn't pick up with the IDE? It's a common interface standard that is fully supported. I guess the combination of running multiple OS's that use IDE + AHCI exclusively cause a conflict.</span></div> </blockquote> I am not clude up enough to know where the problem is. All I know is both ubuntu 7.10 and mint 8.0 worked perfectly on my previous seagate which was a SATAI drive. When i replaced it with a SATAII seagate, I had to enable AHCI for linux to see my drive.<br> </body> </html>