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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: AHCI/IDE-question
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 01:23:08
Message-Id: AANLkTikyuoVVNe=ODxPjE7pN1gD2Jh1Vg-CfsoaPUf+T@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: AHCI/IDE-question by walt
1 On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:59 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 01/21/2011 01:46 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
3 >
4 >> I booted into BIOS here. I have an option called "SATA Configuration"
5 >>
6 >> BIOS then gives me another choice "Configure SATA as"
7 >
8 > What was that programmer smoking?  Some of the equipment I use at work
9 > offers choices that are that dumb, and the error messages are completely
10 > useless without the 300-page manual :(
11 >
12 > Some programmers are alive only because it's (still) illegal to kill them.
13 >
14
15 Yeah, it was a strange one. IIRC it's an AMI BIOS on that machine.
16
17 There's no consistency between vendors and even the same vendors seem
18 to change what things are called from board to board...
19
20 - Mark