Confused about the following:
New system with:
OCZ Agility 2 60 GB drive to be used as boot drive.
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1 TB drive to be used as data storage.
Understand that the OCZ drive needs to be in AHCI mode. The MOBO has 5/6 SATA connectors attached.
1. OCZ Agility 2
2. Samsung F3
3. ASUS DVD/CD Drive
4. SATA Connection for dockable/external additional drive (with no drive attached)
5. SATA connection for additional front panel eSATA connection
6. Empty
In BIOS, only allowed to toggle IDE/AHCI/RAID mode for SATA connections 1-4 as a unit, separate from 5-6. Planned on running F3 in IDE mode until I get a second one at which point I will run the pair in RAID 0 (I have an external iomega 1 TB drive for backup). However, the BIOS seems to force it as either RAID array (in which it won't currently be used or AHCI).
Can the Samsung run as an AHCI? Is anyone familiar with this BIOS? Is there another way to separate the settings so that each connection can be toggled differently rather than grouped?
New system with:
OCZ Agility 2 60 GB drive to be used as boot drive.
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1 TB drive to be used as data storage.
Understand that the OCZ drive needs to be in AHCI mode. The MOBO has 5/6 SATA connectors attached.
1. OCZ Agility 2
2. Samsung F3
3. ASUS DVD/CD Drive
4. SATA Connection for dockable/external additional drive (with no drive attached)
5. SATA connection for additional front panel eSATA connection
6. Empty
In BIOS, only allowed to toggle IDE/AHCI/RAID mode for SATA connections 1-4 as a unit, separate from 5-6. Planned on running F3 in IDE mode until I get a second one at which point I will run the pair in RAID 0 (I have an external iomega 1 TB drive for backup). However, the BIOS seems to force it as either RAID array (in which it won't currently be used or AHCI).
Can the Samsung run as an AHCI? Is anyone familiar with this BIOS? Is there another way to separate the settings so that each connection can be toggled differently rather than grouped?
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