SATA disks on 5.2-CURRENT

Scott Long scottl at freebsd.org
Sun Dec 7 09:15:26 PST 2003


Dan Foster wrote:
> Hot Diggety! Scott Long was rumored to have written:
> 
>>Out of curiosity, are you operating the ICH5 chip in enhanced or legacy
>>mode?  Does changing the mode make a difference?
> 
> 
> How would you determine or change the mode? (dmesg? boot -v? atacontrol?
> pciconf? Or is it a BIOS setup thing?)

It's set via the BIOS.  If you have access to both of the parallel IDE
channels and both of the SATA channels then you are running in enhanced
mode.

Scott



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