So I played with my system for 2 days trying to get AHCI to work.
The problem I BELIEVE that I'm having is my Lite On SATA DVD drive doesn't work in AHCI. I'm not 100% sure thats the issue, b/c I don't have a newer drive to test. I'm thinking it was a 1st gen. drive that just has an adapter chip in there to convert IDE to SATA, ie: not truly native SATA.
EDIT: After doing more research all morning. I found something of note on an Intel forum: "If using a sata optical drive, connect it to the last sata port." Maybe that was my issue though it doesn't really make sense?
Other components:
P5K-E mobo with latest BIOS
WD 74Gb Raptor (now removed)
WD 640Gb black
Intel X25-M
Lite On SH-17 (don't have the exact model # with me at work)
I was going to attempt to disconnect the DVD drive and install WinXP from a USB drive, but it was too complicated to get it to work. And I was getting impatient.
So after many times trying and having blue screens, no boots, etc.
I decided to just go back to Enhanced IDE mode. :/
Here are the results.
http://www.crowdcontrolusa.com/overclock/80gb-ssd.gif
Everything looks ok, right?
Now I think I've heard that the TRIM command doesn't work with out AHCI?
But that doesn't really matter since I'm not using Win 7, etc.
The problem I BELIEVE that I'm having is my Lite On SATA DVD drive doesn't work in AHCI. I'm not 100% sure thats the issue, b/c I don't have a newer drive to test. I'm thinking it was a 1st gen. drive that just has an adapter chip in there to convert IDE to SATA, ie: not truly native SATA.
EDIT: After doing more research all morning. I found something of note on an Intel forum: "If using a sata optical drive, connect it to the last sata port." Maybe that was my issue though it doesn't really make sense?
Other components:
P5K-E mobo with latest BIOS
WD 74Gb Raptor (now removed)
WD 640Gb black
Intel X25-M
Lite On SH-17 (don't have the exact model # with me at work)
I was going to attempt to disconnect the DVD drive and install WinXP from a USB drive, but it was too complicated to get it to work. And I was getting impatient.
So after many times trying and having blue screens, no boots, etc.
I decided to just go back to Enhanced IDE mode. :/
Here are the results.
http://www.crowdcontrolusa.com/overclock/80gb-ssd.gif
Everything looks ok, right?
Now I think I've heard that the TRIM command doesn't work with out AHCI?
But that doesn't really matter since I'm not using Win 7, etc.
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