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Subject: switching from legacy to ahci on intel ICH-7M?
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My current laptop has an AHCI-capable disk controller and SATA disk but,
it appears, the manufacturer has no interest in implementing AHCI in the
BIOS.

Is there an example of how one might (re-)initialize the controller to
take advantage of AHCI and the disk's NCQ capabilites somewhere?

	Michael