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AHCICD.SYS alternatives? (Users)

posted by Japheth Homepage, Germany (South), 20.01.2021, 20:45

>
> BTW how hard would sending ATA commands via AHCI compared to old PIO? When
> my program is already in pmode and I can map the MMIO, this is not problem
> in DJGPP.

Ok, but don't forget that you have to provide physical addresses for the DMA engines.

> I didn't studied AHCI yet. Is the standard generic enough it
> would work then also for AMD AHCI and other manuf.?

I think so. I tried my modified loew-driver on three AHCI machines ( 1 AMD, 2 Intel ),
and it worked on all three.

I'm still wondering how the BIOS of my "AHCI only without IDP"-machine manages HD access in v86-mode. How does it access the HBA registers without using unreal mode? I cannot imagine that it uses Int 15h, ah=87h or VCPI.

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