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Old June 5th, 2008, 11:51 AM
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Configure SATA as AHCI only for Vista ?
I got this paper with the Intel Classic DG33FB Motherboard box.
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If you do no t plan to use this Desktop Board with Microsoft Windows Vista operating system, you will need to perform the steps below to avoid operating system installation failures:

1. Power on the system and press F2 to enter the system BIOS setup.
2. In the BIOS setup screen, press the arrow keys to scroll to the 'Advanced' menu. Select the option for 'Drive' and press Enter.
3. Select the option for 'Configure SATA As', and change the entry to IDE.
Press F10 to save the changes and exit from the BIOS setup.

You may now begin installation of the operating system of your choice.

Recently I've been having some issues with Linux installation - but I found out that it was due to corrupted downloads.
But does this mean that Ubuntu 8 & FC9 cant run as SATAs configured as AHCI ?

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I got the feeling the reference may refer to some odd operating systems that do have Sata drivers. Even BSD systems support Sata disks.

As far as Linux is concerned the official support for Sata started at the beginning of the 2.6 kernel and we are in 2.6.24

You have to go back as far as Red Hat 9 (pre Fedora age with 2.4.20 kernel) to find a Linux not able to read/write a Sata.
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I got the feeling the reference may refer to some odd operating systems that do have Sata drivers. Even BSD systems support Sata disks.

As far as Linux is concerned the official support for Sata started at the beginning of the 2.6 kernel and we are in 2.6.24

You have to go back as far as Red Hat 9 (pre Fedora age with 2.4.20 kernel) to find a Linux not able to read/write a Sata.

I asked this same question to a guy who used to write drivers for hard-disks.
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There is a difference between supporting SATA and AHCI. AHCI is the controller interface while SATA is the transport protocol. Anyway, I am certain that there are Linux drivers for it. The questions is whether you have it with you package. Not much you can do if you do not have the storage driver... Usually it is pretty involved to insert a storage driver during OS install.

Linux has been supporting SATA for long - but does it have drivers for the AHCI controller interface ?
I was trying to install Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit DVD version & Fedora Core 9 64-bit DVD.
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