NAME
ahcisata —
AHCI 1.0 and 1.1 compliant
SATA controllers driver
SYNOPSIS
ahcisata* at pci? dev ? function ? flags 0x0000
DESCRIPTION
The
ahcisata 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.