sata hotswap on Intel ICH7

Jeremy Chadwick koitsu at FreeBSD.org
Mon Oct 20 18:11:21 UTC 2008


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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