Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:18:38 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AHCI and Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007301706210.7308@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20100730065135.GA51952@slackbox.erewhon.net> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007291848110.934@wonkity.com> <20100730065135.GA51952@slackbox.erewhon.net>
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On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Roland Smith wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 08:29:37PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: >> The Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L has an ICH7, one PATA port, and four SATA >> ports. This one now has the latest BIOS, F10. >> >> Is it possible to run AHCI on this motherboard and chipset? > > Only some ICH7 chipsets are able to run with AHCI. Looks like only the ICH7R and ICH7D variants. > Check the 'atapci' devices in the output of 'pciconf -lv'. Only if it says > "subclass = SATA" below "class=mass storage", it is AHCI capable. This plain ICH7 says "subclass = ATA".
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