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On 18/02/2010 08:54, Valentin Bud wrote:
> Hello community,
>
>  I have an Intel server and I must activate AHCI from BIOS so I can
> use all the 6 HDDs.
>
>  Can anybody tell me if FBSD8.0 is stable using AHCI. This is the first
> I have to use so I thought I'd ask the community opinion first.
>
>   
AHCI is working very well for me, you can either use the old ataahci
(part of the standard ata subsystem) or the newer ahci driver which
moves ahci into the CAM subsystem, gives ada disk devices and is being
very actively developed in STABLE/CURRENT.


Vince
> Thank you,
> v
>