Ravi Pratap M wrote:

Hi guys,

My Dell Dimension 8400 machine has the latest Intel ICH6RW controller
and I am running kernel 2.6.8.1. I was under the impression that
libata's ata_piix driver now supports AHCI mode but when I set the BIOS
to that setting, the kernel doesn't see anything.


Has the AHCI driver not fully been integrated into mainline libata ? I
downloaded the latest prepatch kernel but I still don't see any AHCI
driver (I found an ahci.c that you posted to linux-kernel sometime in
April 2004 but that is missing from the main linux kernel source tree
that I have downloaded here).

Nothing new to add beyond that of
http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html

AHCI _should_ be going in any day now (well, after Labor Day vacation), 
so it will appear RSN.

	Jeff