Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...>, Mark Lord <liml@...>, Riki Oktarianto <rkoktarianto@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...>, <linux-ide@...>
I second that.
My computer/mainboard @work has such a "broken" BIOS. Of the 5
SATA-Ports this MB has only 1 (and 1 "missing" that is reported by linux
but i can't find on the MB) is configured as AHCI which means that with
a HDD & a DVD-ROM connected to 2 of the 4 "piix"-ports, i only have 1
hot-pluggable port instead of the possible 3. And for some temporary
work i would really need at least 2 hot-pluggable ports.
So as a work-around i will try a Promise 150 TX4 controller as it is
supposed to support hotplug since 2.6.23.
After having hotplug @home from the date the linux-kernel supporting it
was released, i don't want to live without it, as i use it daily.
And on the topic of "broken" BIOSes. I have a little empathy for the MB
manufactures as non-RAID AHCI royaly screws Windos, so not supporting it
reduces their support costs enough to overlook screwing the non-windos
faction.
Bis denn
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