[ltp] ata_piix on a t42p

Jan Gutter linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:51:59 +0200


On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 09:39 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 09:38:13AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Tue, 07 Aug 2007, Mihai C??lin Bazon wrote:
> > > Make sure you enable AHCI in your BIOS; otherwise the HDD will be in
> > > backward compatibility mode (/dev/hda instead of /dev/sda).
> > 
> > No AHCI, (or SATA for that matter) in a T42, AFAIK. T43 has non-AHCI SATA in
> > BIOS, and AHCI if you *really* screw with the chipset.  T60 and newer have
> > AHCI in BIOS.
> 
> Although not for the Ultrabay drives (those are still PATA) with the
> T60's.  Does anyone know if things are any different with the T61/X61's?

I don't have an Ultrabay, but the X61 Tablet definitely has a setting in
the BIOS for AHCI, and on the Lenovo order page, you can order SATA
drives for the Ultrabay X6 series.

-- Jan