Why Does Z60t not have a AHCI / Compatibility mode in BIOS?

[umern]

my Z60T (model 2511-FFG) has been acting really strange lately and I really fancy putting a non IBM install of XP on it rather than a Rescure Recovery.
The only thing that concerns me is that the drive is a SATA drive so worried about getting the drivers on during the XP install.
The T60 forum talks about a SATA compatibility mode setting in the BIOS but I cant see any on the Z60T.

Does it not need one - is it always operating in Compat mode - cos the device manager and BIOS shows ATA / IDE drives.

Please confirm...

Thanks!

[ryengineer]

This is rather strange to me as well, having owned a Z series machine (in 2005), I never cared to notice it maybe simply because I don't use clean installs.

The BIOS simulator confirms your find though:

BIOS simulator - ThinkPad Z60m, Z60t.

Seems like it was never coded in the BIOS.