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From: Renat Golubchyk <ragermany@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI in Windows (was: Any newer Gentoo install CDs?)
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:36:00
Message-Id: 20080107123444.2523bd74@mating-tux
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs? by Mark Knecht
1 Hi!
2
3 On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:31:43 -0800 "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@×××××.com>
4 wrote:
5 > OK, I took a few minutes away from his Half Life game to look at
6 > BIOS. I found the AHCI option and enabled it. Of course he wanted to
7 > get back to gaming so we tried to boot back into Windows but XP goes
8 > blue screen at the first disk access with AHCI enabled.
9
10 Windows versions prior to Windows Server 2003 do not support AHCI:
11 http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/serialATA_FAQ.mspx
12
13 You have to install SATA drivers of the mainboard manufacturer in order
14 to enable it. For the ASUS P5E board you can download the Intel Matrix
15 Storage driver from ASUS support site. After installing the driver you
16 can enable AHCI in BIOS.
17
18
19 Cheers,
20 Renat
21
22 --
23 Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen,
24 durch die sie entstanden sind.
25 (Einstein)

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Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI in Windows (was: Any newer Gentoo install CDs?) Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>