> So I tried my fanciest (newest) motherboard, with a 500GB SATA drive. > Booting off USB suggests that the SATA controller is not recognised. > The PCI identification is Vendor 8086 (Intel) and, for some reason I > can't fathom, device 27df or 27c0. The latter seems to require IRQ 11 > (I only glimpsed at that).
can you send me a photo. if you can send me a pci listing as well. if there are any adralloc() failures on screen, it would be helpful if you used acid to map that to a line of code as confirmation of no version skew. i'll be happy to take a look. - erik