On 12/14/09, b. f. <bf1783_at_googlemail.com> wrote: ... >>So far so good. :) I am actually kind of curious as to why "device >>ata" is needed, but it doesn't seem to be hurting anything. > > It is needed if you have AHCI hardware, and are operating in AHCI > mode, but don't have ahci(4) in your kernel; or if you don't have AHCI > hardware, or have AHCI hardware operating in legacy mode, and still > want to use ATA devices. > I forgot to mention that ata(4) is also superfluous if you have hardware that can use the siis(4) driver, and that driver is in your kernel.Received on Mon Dec 14 2009 - 04:31:39 UTC
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