Further information may still be found on http://www.nongnu.org/thug/gnumach_hardware.html and could perhaps be incorporated into that page. --tschwinge

SATA

IRC, freenode, +hurd, 2011-07-24

<braunr> youpi: concerning the ide compatibility problem, it seems some
  bioses provide several modes
<braunr> youpi: "legacy ide" and "native ide"
<braunr> i don't know what native ide really means, but when debugging ide
  probing in gnumach, it just looks like there is nothing to detect
<braunr> and even in this mode, linux uses the ahci driver
<youpi> apparently native means it still uses the IDE protocol, but
  possibly with other IRQs
<youpi> i.e. you need a PCI driver to handle that
<braunr> ok