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.Dd October 7, 2017
.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 SATA controllers compliant with the Serial ATA Advanced
Host Controller Interface Revision 1.0 or 1.1 specification,
and provides the interface to the hardware for the
.Xr ata 4
driver.
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver will only attach if the controller 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
.Rs
.%A Intel Corporation
.%T Serial ATA Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI)
.%N Revision 1.3
.%D June 26, 2008
.%U http://download.intel.com/technology/serialata/pdf/rev1_3.pdf
.Re
.Sh HISTORY
NCQ support was added
in
.Nx
on October 7, 2017 by
.An Jaromir Dolecek Aq Mt jdolecek@NetBSD.org .