Subject: Re: does NetBSD support Intel ICH8 ?
To: Pierrick Brossin <pierrick@bs-network.net>
From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/21/2006 11:25:12
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On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 11:19:13AM +0100, Pierrick Brossin wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 10:44:35AM +0100, Thomas Feddersen wrote:
> > I intend to buy a MB with Intel G965 chipset and use the 6 SATA channel=
s =20
> > to connect 6 harddrives. Now I wonder: Does NetBSD support the current =
=20
> > Intel chipsets with ICH8?
>=20
> NetBSD doesn't like SATA (at least from the ICH8 chipset). I had to use
> the BIOS to make my SATA HD look as if it was a normal IDE drive.

That's incorrect.  NetBSD doesn't do AHCI.  There is code in -current
that tries to switch ICH7 and ulterior to IDE mode automagically.

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Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"You could have made it, spitting out benchmarks
Owe it to yourself not to fail"
Amplifico, Spitting Out Benchmarks, Hometakes Vol. 2, 2005.

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