Re: [gentoo-user] changed motherboard, no AHCI [SOLVED]

[Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>]

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On Apr 21, 2012 5:26 PM, "Philip Webb" <purslow@ca.inter.net> wrote:
>
> 120421 Graham Murray wrote:
> > pk <peterk2@coolmail.se> writes:
> >> On 2012-04-21 04:12, Philip Webb wrote:
> >>> It's an Asus P5G41T-M LX & the manual says :
> >> the chipset on that mobo is G41 (released in 2008) and it combines
> >> with ICH7 which unfortunately doesn't seem to support AHCI.
> > If it is an ICH which does not support AHCI, then try the option
> > for "Intel ESB, ICH, PIIX3, PIIX4 PATA/SATA Support"
> > which generates the PIIX driver.
>
> Thanks enormously ! -- that's the solution (ATA_PIIX).
>
> I'm surprised that the newer mobo (G41) dropped support for AHCI
> which the older mobo (G33) had, but it shouldn't make much difference
> & I'm planning to build an upto-date machine later in the year.
>

That's Intel for you. Similar situation with their CPUs.

I always feel depressed if I have to purchase an Intel CPU. Feature support
(e.g. VT-x) are not guaranteed to exist, even when the CPU is a new one.

Rgds,

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