NAME
ahcisata —
AHCI 1.0 and 1.1 compliant SATA
controllers driver
SYNOPSIS
ahcisata* at pci? dev ? function ? flags
0x0000
DESCRIPTION
Theahcisata driver supports SATA controllers compliant
with the Serial ATA Advanced Host Controller Interface Revision 1.0 or 1.1
specification, and provides the interface to the hardware for the
ata(4)
driver.
The ahcisata driver will only attach if
the controller has been put in AHCI mode by the BIOS; if the controller is
in pciide-compatible mode, it will be handled by the appropriate driver
(piixide(4) for Intel AHCI controllers).
SEE ALSO
ata(4), atapi(4), intro(4), pci(4), pciide(4), wd(4), wdc(4)
Intel Corporation, Serial ATA Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI), Revision 1.3, http://download.intel.com/technology/serialata/pdf/rev1_3.pdf, June 26, 2008.
BUGS
Native Command Queuing is not yet supported.