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From: Wilfred Xavier Pickles on 16 Jul 2010 17:03

I got an upscale Asus Clarkdale etc mobo in part because I was hoping
they would do a better job of rigor/detail etc of documentation and
the like.

After I spent TOO LONG last nite looking for AHCI bios settings in
the Asus User Guide, I loaded the manuals .pdf and did a search
on "AHCI". Such string appears nowhere in the manual.

Something as basic as AHCI to modern computing with SATA storage, nowhere to
be found in the manual. Jeez, I just can't believe it.

Anyway, I'll look much harder (online manuals, etc) before buying another
mobo from *anybody*. IMHO, the industry is short-changing everyone that
tinkers with these things.

Will
From: KCB on 16 Jul 2010 23:23

"Wilfred Xavier Pickles" <barrel.full(a)screwmail.com> wrote in message
news:36i146tldppfa22nm2eqn5ns928s6uku2h(a)4ax.com...
>
> I got an upscale Asus Clarkdale etc mobo in part because I was hoping
> they would do a better job of rigor/detail etc of documentation and
> the like.
>
> After I spent TOO LONG last nite looking for AHCI bios settings in
> the Asus User Guide, I loaded the manuals .pdf and did a search
> on "AHCI". Such string appears nowhere in the manual.
>
> Something as basic as AHCI to modern computing with SATA storage, nowhere
> to
> be found in the manual. Jeez, I just can't believe it.
>
> Anyway, I'll look much harder (online manuals, etc) before buying another
> mobo from *anybody*. IMHO, the industry is short-changing everyone that
> tinkers with these things.
>
> Will

What board did you get? "Clarkdale etc" doesn't say much. Look in the
manual under Storage Configuration. I have a P6X58D, and it's listed in the
manual. I checked 2 other manuals at random from ASUS, and they have it
listed also.

From: GMAN on 17 Jul 2010 00:13
In article <36i146tldppfa22nm2eqn5ns928s6uku2h(a)4ax.com>, barrel.full(a)screwmail.com wrote:
>
>I got an upscale Asus Clarkdale etc mobo in part because I was hoping
>they would do a better job of rigor/detail etc of documentation and
>the like.
>
>After I spent TOO LONG last nite looking for AHCI bios settings in
>the Asus User Guide, I loaded the manuals .pdf and did a search
>on "AHCI". Such string appears nowhere in the manual.
>
>Something as basic as AHCI to modern computing with SATA storage, nowhere to
>be found in the manual. Jeez, I just can't believe it.
>
>Anyway, I'll look much harder (online manuals, etc) before buying another
>mobo from *anybody*. IMHO, the industry is short-changing everyone that
>tinkers with these things.
>
>Will
It might say "native" instead of AHCI
From: Paul on 17 Jul 2010 01:33
GMAN wrote:
> In article <36i146tldppfa22nm2eqn5ns928s6uku2h(a)4ax.com>, barrel.full(a)screwmail.com wrote:
>> I got an upscale Asus Clarkdale etc mobo in part because I was hoping
>> they would do a better job of rigor/detail etc of documentation and
>> the like.
>>
>> After I spent TOO LONG last nite looking for AHCI bios settings in
>> the Asus User Guide, I loaded the manuals .pdf and did a search
>> on "AHCI". Such string appears nowhere in the manual.
>>
>> Something as basic as AHCI to modern computing with SATA storage, nowhere to
>> be found in the manual. Jeez, I just can't believe it.
>>
>> Anyway, I'll look much harder (online manuals, etc) before buying another
>> mobo from *anybody*. IMHO, the industry is short-changing everyone that
>> tinkers with these things.
>>
>> Will
> It might say "native" instead of AHCI

To add some additional comedy to this observation about manuals,
I was searching for something similar in an MSI manual. And try
as I might, my attempts to search were turning up nothing. I
manually scanned through the manual, page by page, and the information
I wanted, was right there.

Why didn't the search find it ?

It turns out, if you copy and paste "AHCI" from the manual, into
Notepad, the copied results was "AHC ", where the fourth character
was garbage. The whole document was like that, with the letter "i"
corrupted as if the character set being used was wrong somehow.

So the issue isn't always with the written content - it can
also be a PDF / tech writer issue.

I've even seen manuals from some of the lesser motherboard companies,
where every page is just a JPEG pasted into the PDF document, and
none of the text is searchable. And that's really enjoyable when
you're in a hurry, as it means having to page through the manual
for everything.

Paul
From: Wilfred Xavier Pickles on 18 Jul 2010 18:13
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:23:32 -0400, "KCB" <bcgc_qc(a)hootmail.com> wrote:

>What board did you get?

P7H55D-M EVO

>Clarkdale etc" doesn't say much. Look in the
>manual under Storage Configuration. I have a P6X58D, and it's listed in the
>manual. I checked 2 other manuals at random from ASUS, and they have it
>listed also.

It is missing from the P7H55D-M EVO manual, but present in the
P7H55-M PRO V2 manual. Go figger!
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