[CentOS] CentOS 6 Installation on Thinkpad X220

[John Hodrien]

On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> Am 10.09.2011 13:40, schrieb John Hodrien:
>> On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Janne TH. Nyman wrote:
>
>>> These where the steps I took to resolve it:
>>>
>>> 1. Start Laptop
>>> 2. When first boot screen appears, press F1 to get into the BIOS setup
>>> 3. Go to Config > Serial ATA and change AHCI to Compatibility
>>> 4. Press F10 to save and reboot
>
>> Making sure it was in AHCI mode was the first suggestion you got on the
>> list... ;)
>
> And she changed it from AHCI to compatibility mode (had to change it to
> that mode to make the drive being recognized?), which is not the best
> setting regarding speed.

Quite right, sorry, I'd read it backwards.  So presumably either a bug in the
AHCI support, or a limitation/bug of the kernel driver?

jh