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.Dd November 30, 2006
.Dt AHCISATA 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm ahcisata
.Nd AHCI 1.0 and 1.1 compliant SATA controllers driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "ahcisata* at pci? dev ? function ? flags 0x0000"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver supports the SATA controllers compliants to the Serial ATA Advanced
Host Controller Interface Revision 1.0 or 1.1 specification,
and provides the interface with the hardware for the
.Xr ata 4
driver.
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver will only attach if the contoller 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
.Xr ( piixide 4
for Intel AHCI controllers).
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ata 4 ,
.Xr atapi 4 ,
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr pci 4 ,
.Xr pciide 4 ,
.Xr wd 4 ,
.Xr wdc 4
.Sh BUGS
Native Command Queueing is not yet supported.