From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 3 19:25:51 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D9E0106564A for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 19:25:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from demelier.david@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30898FC16 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 19:25:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf19 with SMTP id 19so1508099wyf.13 for ; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 11:25:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=YfPSmJUDcCJ086PEOE4lEuevgvASOn0XKz74JWp4ivQ=; b=SZMrgNfmKDg09vzaOxebUfShDCqKa2Cm2QuZIzUCJicX4ei1AoMHhv5TQD6M6Ry0x5 msmU+gjjCR7K98McVvYPh08tmdvOMKxEhoK0zbTUSyZHxbtANkjplZx1n/Z0XIqkLT+D +Q+G6EaL2M6Hfs548oQhk0mC0d9tkF34qKfGk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ogVm8q4vxMO59d6Vjfwzh7SIb/buR0luxkruvSeewAbbuoF+p2SI/Uqxn7kkU9WGQt m0TUUuR22lIpnqA4VEqiOjTY4x9XvV0ZW38YMIllsn+fDvQpjOXfT1iGtBJVfsRh73c4 fagAyMytud1E6mQDlwCywSPKadkoQ/g3wJ09o= Received: by 10.227.146.21 with SMTP id f21mr7383111wbv.183.1296761147915; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 11:25:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from Melon.malikania.fr (65.21.102-84.rev.gaoland.net [84.102.21.65]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u9sm847153wbg.0.2011.02.03.11.25.45 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 03 Feb 2011 11:25:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D4B012B.1020606@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:25:31 +0100 From: David Demelier User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110125 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <120019.9166.qm@web161611.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <120019.9166.qm@web161611.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: AHCI dvd woes 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: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:25:51 -0000 On 02/02/2011 05:56, Neil Short wrote: > old problem on HP laptops. the workaround has been to go to the BIOS and switch from AHCI to IDE interface; but my BIOS doesn't support switching. > > is anybody working on this? > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" What's your problem exactly ? If you're not using ahci(4) and using AHCI interface on your laptop you may encounter troubles yes. I personnally prefere switching to IDE it works better, but because you can't try the ahci(4) driver. Cheers, -- David Demelier