Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:31:37 -0500 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: dougb@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AHCI/ATA_CAM for dummies? Message-ID: <d873d5be0912132131l1407e8d9te34d7ffd7d7f38a0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d873d5be0912132105p6fea5f74ld0caf2cfe43cd808@mail.gmail.com> References: <d873d5be0912132105p6fea5f74ld0caf2cfe43cd808@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/14/09, b. f. <bf1783@googlemail.com> wrote: ... >>So far so good. :) I am actually kind of curious as to why "device >>ata" is needed, but it doesn't seem to be hurting anything. > > It is needed if you have AHCI hardware, and are operating in AHCI > mode, but don't have ahci(4) in your kernel; or if you don't have AHCI > hardware, or have AHCI hardware operating in legacy mode, and still > want to use ATA devices. > I forgot to mention that ata(4) is also superfluous if you have hardware that can use the siis(4) driver, and that driver is in your kernel.
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