[Discussion] eCS with Dell XPS 210

[Chuck McKinnis]

Ira N. Saxe wrote:
> Neither eCS 1.2 or 2.0 RC5 will load from CD on my Dell.  The problem 
> seems to be that the PC's BIOS is configured in AHCI mode, which is not 
> supported by eCS.  The AHCI is required by Vista, not by Wincows XP, 
> which I'm using. But, Dell is unwilling to change it.  I've asked eCS to 
> support AHCI but am not optimistic that they will.
> I'm posting this warning so others who plan to use eCS will check for 
> this before buying a new Dell.  Regards, Ira Saxe

Just thought I would throw in my experience.  I happened to be into the 
BIOS of my T61 today.  The SATA support is set to AHCI (Advanced Host 
Contoller Interface).  I have Windows XP, Kubuntu, eCS 2.0RC6, and eCS 
1.2R running on this machine.  The eCS 1.2R installation required adding 
the current drivers (mainly Dani's SATA driver) from diskette.

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