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Date:      Sun, 07 Dec 2003 10:14:12 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
To:        Dan Foster <dsf@globalcrossing.net>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SATA disks on 5.2-CURRENT
Message-ID:  <3FD35FE4.9090501@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031207171004.GA5019@gblx.net>
References:  <86u14cwqrf.wl@bougainvillea.FromTo.Cc> <3FD3566D.6000900@freebsd.org> <20031207171004.GA5019@gblx.net>

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Dan Foster wrote:
> Hot Diggety! Scott Long was rumored to have written:
> 
>>Out of curiosity, are you operating the ICH5 chip in enhanced or legacy
>>mode?  Does changing the mode make a difference?
> 
> 
> How would you determine or change the mode? (dmesg? boot -v? atacontrol?
> pciconf? Or is it a BIOS setup thing?)

It's set via the BIOS.  If you have access to both of the parallel IDE
channels and both of the SATA channels then you are running in enhanced
mode.

Scott



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