[ltp] ICH6M legacy hotswap?

[Shem Multinymous]

On 2/28/06, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to get an ICH6 into AHCI
> mode if the BIOS has set it up in legacy mode.

Yeah, I've just found Jeff's posts on that.
It's a real shame, taking a perfectly good AHCI controller and using
it in legacy mode... I hope someone finds a way to hack it out.


> I wrote some code that
> basically does what lt_hotswap does for SATA devices that worked fine on
> my ICH6 test machine (a Dell rather than a Thinkpad, but shouldn't
> matter in this case), but it needs much more polish before it's
> integratable.

Eagerly awaited.

  Shem