On 1/21/2011 3:30 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> Mike Edenfield <kut...@kutulu.org> [11-01-21 21:28]:
>> On 1/21/2011 2:48 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
>>
>>> My ASUS board offers:
>>> RAID
>>> IDE
>>> AHCI
>>>
>>> The help to both kernel options mentioned above is saying (beside
>>> other things): "If unsure, say N".
>>
>> Which kernel options are you specifically looking it?
>>
>> There isn't a single option that I see that says "AHCI", or "IDE".
>> There are two separate AHCI options and a few dozen SFF ("IDE") options.
> I am talking about this two options:
>
> CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=y
> # CONFIG_SATA_AHCI_PLATFORM is not set
Yes, those are just two different version of the AHCI driver. And you
don't need either of them to boot, since AHCI is only one option for
accessing IDE drives. On my systems that predate AHCI/SATA, for
example, I just use the legacy interface:
CONFIG_ATA_SFF=y
CONFIG_ATA_BMDMA=y
CONFIG_SATA_NV=y
But if AHCI is available, then obviously I'm going to use that instead.
--Mike
