From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 30 03:36:58 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9844B106564A for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:36:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5282C8FC1E for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:36:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe42 with SMTP id 42so544930yxe.13 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:36:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=L69Qa1ynv47Js/oWwAhx5aIoCw2TSt1Ux1WQ0POCrr4=; b=D5aNMOVgZ2G7pXxNEASM6x6eUTnthb9xd/TdIhKdZnvdRV3v20pSEcxWCEC+3Vg8Jf 3IuL2O6qWOtRbtM2rJTZFCHAYnO0cGg/7Uj6h94DKzc5pCzmInVLOvTA0mhiur0aBJrw SQwzMxKLfM1p1DBy4tJk+Yc9w3w9Sllr7nfbc= 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 :cc:content-type; b=a9BQE9SzcDuH3mx3rUZa/Wb436dsutfgQpQaNWoE5WcMZybv/UC+6jMT3bw95kbNmE jRqeHMTUp4Gx+RglHw0dIuU6cSplY62y01L2xplh/7dQPxKt3HhsellSEYjnA4C14aCA NDLXv7IzKF6ixQUR0baGbZvXJ4WoyVX/TOsZ4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.128.7 with SMTP id f7mr2092366ybn.313.1280461014169; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:36:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.64.160 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:36:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:36:53 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Warren Block Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AHCI and Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:36:58 -0000 On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:29 PM, 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? > > With FreeBSD 8-stable, the terrible BIOS set to "Enhanced" mode, one SATA > drive connected, and ahci_load="YES" in loader.conf, an ada disk device does > not appear. > > Is AHCI too much to ask from a G31/ICH7 motherboard, or is it just this > particular motherboard? > I think you're SOL on both counts. G41 maybe. -- Adam Vande More