From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PgSC3-0006d7-SR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2011 01:23:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 87485E0BF1; Sat, 22 Jan 2011 01:21:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 362EFE0BF1 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2011 01:21:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf22 with SMTP id 22so3160668wyf.40 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:21:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=wtgxU+DRfsbFMItJUe1VR3jPljrqqlRgOTC/LAW000I=; b=Tj7chPGjG06aeYeQ9cOvhRGIsDtlPP7lJNsmHRIlpVTqzaCcgg0TiIySddH5Ex07xT p056QdKIJr1IInyEUFXEYFTyGXwP+lV9cfbQQvKgZtbVyiUi70DPIGiPwWewYpomNi02 aODgvD85Nw8C7mEzY3cYx0h92Gouo2akbLx4I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=W2t7Re5yX2PaCuC3FXlLt+yg6uaVmPUbyU2Hw06YGOKGfN0cFh44oiN/hHzJyCKG20 VZB4207zpjHA2PctkznLoxH/Fkn6d78jtZuzNd47sl2pwHercKtJar7ucCR+1R/yDGqg wf+n6v6l/cbEIIAGcur0lalMbSQr7i/289sS4= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.10.208 with SMTP id 58mr1366009wev.14.1295659300323; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:21:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.16.21 with HTTP; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:21:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20110121184507.GC5787@solfire> <20110121194028.GD5787@solfire> <20110121201150.GC5878@solfire> <4D39EE7D.6070603@gmail.com> <20110121205336.GA5916@solfire> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:21:40 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: AHCI/IDE-question From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 43ffb1a7fd4f5fd6c5c0d2ae41ae2942 On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:59 PM, walt wrote: > On 01/21/2011 01:46 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> I booted into BIOS here. I have an option called "SATA Configuration" >> >> BIOS then gives me another choice "Configure SATA as" > > What was that programmer smoking? =C2=A0Some of the equipment I use at wo= rk > offers choices that are that dumb, and the error messages are completely > useless without the 300-page manual :( > > Some programmers are alive only because it's (still) illegal to kill them= . > Yeah, it was a strange one. IIRC it's an AMI BIOS on that machine. There's no consistency between vendors and even the same vendors seem to change what things are called from board to board... - Mark