On Apr 21, 2012 5:26 PM, "Philip Webb" <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > > 120421 Graham Murray wrote: > > pk <pete...@coolmail.se> writes: > >> On 2012-04-21 04:12, Philip Webb wrote: > >>> It's an Asus P5G41T-M LX & the manual says : > >> the chipset on that mobo is G41 (released in 2008) and it combines > >> with ICH7 which unfortunately doesn't seem to support AHCI. > > If it is an ICH which does not support AHCI, then try the option > > for "Intel ESB, ICH, PIIX3, PIIX4 PATA/SATA Support" > > which generates the PIIX driver. > > Thanks enormously ! -- that's the solution (ATA_PIIX). > > I'm surprised that the newer mobo (G41) dropped support for AHCI > which the older mobo (G33) had, but it shouldn't make much difference > & I'm planning to build an upto-date machine later in the year. >
That's Intel for you. Similar situation with their CPUs. I always feel depressed if I have to purchase an Intel CPU. Feature support (e.g. VT-x) are not guaranteed to exist, even when the CPU is a new one. Rgds,
