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Apparently, though unproven, at 22:37 on Friday 21 January 2011, Dale did |
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opine thusly: |
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> meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> > Last thing which remains is: Why does the help of the kernel says |
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> > to both AHCI-settings: "If unsure, say N"... ? |
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> I just built a rig with a Gigabyte mobo. Mine has setting like yours. |
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> I asked on here and was told that AHCI is the "new way" to do things. |
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> So, I set mine to that and it has worked fine. |
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> The only issue I did have is not being able to boot from a CD/DVD with |
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> it set to AHCI. No idea why that matters. My DVD drive is SATA too. I |
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> need to play with that more later on. See if it was that or something |
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> else that I missed. Thought I would mention that just in case you try |
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> to boot a CD or something and get a nasty error message or something. |
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> May want to file that in the back of your brain for future reference. |
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My notebook works like that too. |
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Hard disk works fine when everything is set to AHCI, but then the system won't |
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boot from CD. So I enabled the IDE driver and the IDE driver for CD-ROMs. |
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My take on this is that Dell had a vast stock of cheap-skate CD-ROM hardware |
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and used them up. The engineering logic would have been "it doesn't matter |
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that we use the slow interface for that device, it's still faster than we can |
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get the data off the media." |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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