[ubuntu-za] Installation problems

[Wesley Werner]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Dave Lizamore <dave.lizamore at gmail.com>wrote:

> . Both Ubuntu 10.04 and Mint 9.0 now only supports the AHCI
> protocol for accessing SATA2 drives and not the IDE protocol.. Win Xp
> supports IDE, but is too old to support AHCI
>

I should point out that AHCI doesn't give performance benefits, it's an
interface for ATA device coms and hot-swappable configurations. I can see
why the Linux Kernel pushed to support this, since kernel 2.6.19, so this
support falls on a lower level Ubuntu specifically. It is still too new to
be supported out-the-box by Windows XP, as you discovered, but at the time
AHCI did not exist either, and so we suffer from OS/Hardware
incompatibility.

I think going forward we will have to put up with the clunky hardware
designs. What I don't understand is how come Linux didn't pick up with the
IDE? It's a common interface standard that is fully supported. I guess
the combination of running multiple OS's that use IDE + AHCI exclusively
cause a conflict.
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