ata_piix and ALPM

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Hi,
The released bios of my laptop (Clevo M720R) unfortunately disables AHCI for me, forcing me to use ata_piix. Is there any way to get ALPM to work with ata_piix or am I SOL?

Best regards,
Erik
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