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Date:      Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:11:19 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sata hotswap on Intel ICH7
Message-ID:  <20081020181119.GA9777@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <539c60b90810201109t4504d87dy727220c6663a4281@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <539c60b90810201018v455513a0tdc97d7465e6623c3@mail.gmail.com> <20081020172515.GA8705@icarus.home.lan> <539c60b90810201109t4504d87dy727220c6663a4281@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:09:19AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
> > It also requires that you be using SATA in "Enhanced" mode, or under
> > AHCI.  Using SATA in "Emulation" or "Compatible" mode (e.g. a 2-channel
> > SATA controller will assign disks as ata0-master and ata0-slave) will
> > not work how you expect.  AHCI is preferred, if available.
> 
> Ok, I followed the rest, but is the part above a function of the bios,
> the hardware, a sysctl, or what?  Sounds like bios, I'll have a
> look...

Yep, this would be in the BIOS.  Sorry I didn't specify, my bad.  :-)

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