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30.Dd November 30, 2006
31.Dt AHCISATA 4
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm ahcisata
35.Nd AHCI 1.0 and 1.1 compliant SATA controllers driver
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Cd "ahcisata* at pci? dev ? function ? flags 0x0000"
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39The
40.Nm
41driver supports the SATA controllers compliants to the Serial ATA Advanced
42Host Controller Interface Revision 1.0 or 1.1 specification,
43and provides the interface with the hardware for the
44.Xr ata 4
45driver.
46.Pp
47The
48.Nm
49driver will only attach if the contoller has been put in AHCI mode by the
50BIOS; if the controller is in pciide-compatible mode, it will be handled
51by the appropriate driver
52.Xr ( piixide 4
53for Intel AHCI controllers).
54.Sh SEE ALSO
55.Xr ata 4 ,
56.Xr atapi 4 ,
57.Xr intro 4 ,
58.Xr pci 4 ,
59.Xr pciide 4 ,
60.Xr wd 4 ,
61.Xr wdc 4
62.Sh BUGS
63Native Command Queueing is not yet supported.
64