November 30, 2006 AHCISATA 4

### 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 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 ata(4) driver.

The ahcisata 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 `(`4 for Intel AHCI controllers).

### SEE ALSO

ata(4), atapi(4), intro(4), pci(4), pciide(4), wd(4), wdc(4)

### BUGS

Native Command Queueing is not yet supported.