karacho thank you for your input, I would like to confirm that the kernel flags you've posted have indeed for some curious reason speeded up my boot i.e. brought it back to original speeds (with UseKernelCache=Yes of course)
I have the Gigabyte GA-H61N-USB3 and originally, with only the OCZ Agility 3 on-board, it would boot very fast. Once I've hooked up a Seagate Greet 1,5TB, the boot is delayed by 10-15 seconds more. Adding the flags "debug=8 ahcidisk=1" brought back the initial boot speed:
Code:
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>-v darkwake=0 debug=8 ahcidisk=1</string>
However, I removed debug=8 and only left ahcidisk=1 believing it was an option, it didn't work. The flags are both needed.
Can anyone shed some light on this and perhaps educate me as to what these do? I obviously do see more debug info while booting; just wondering how this fixes the any AHCI issue and what the debug does...
Cheers again. Grateful. No need to patch AHCI kexts or use Lion's.