Hey, I have 4 seperate SATA HDs installed on my P5W DH Deluxe. I recently successfully converted them from IDE to AHCI mode.
Anyways, I had 2x 74GB Raptors on SATA 1 & 2, and 1x Seagate 320GB on SATA 4. There's no SATA3, so I had to plug my 4th HD (another 74GB Raptor) into the JMicron SATA_RAID1 connector. I was having problems with the drive being VERY slow via HD Tach (1.6MB/s avg read) so I figured I'd try a few things. I updated the driver for the JMicron RAID Controller and set the JMicron Controller mode to AHCI in Bios, with BOOTROM disabled. Now the drive works perfect. Interesting enough however, it lists the drive in Windows Device Manager as WDC WD74 0GD-00FL SCSI Disk Device.
Now I'm just wondering if anyone else had the same experience, and if it's ok to leave it as this (everything seems normal), or will this have ill effects on my Raptor and cause it to die/ruin it.
I'm NOT interested in running RAID, and simply just want to run all 4 of my SATA drives seperately; I originally had a P5B Deluxe but ended up having to RMA it and getting this. Is there anything I should worry about the Windows listing it as a SCSI device or is that just something I shouldn't worry about? Any insight into this would be appreciated, thanks! (especially if it *is* harmful to the drive and I have to change settings, or that I have nothing to worry about
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Oh yeah, I converted from IDE to AHCI mode through this (http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t457699.html) and then updated the Intel Storage Matrix - everything should be ok with these 3 drives too right? (afaik they're all normal through various tests/diagnostics/benches)
Anyways, I had 2x 74GB Raptors on SATA 1 & 2, and 1x Seagate 320GB on SATA 4. There's no SATA3, so I had to plug my 4th HD (another 74GB Raptor) into the JMicron SATA_RAID1 connector. I was having problems with the drive being VERY slow via HD Tach (1.6MB/s avg read) so I figured I'd try a few things. I updated the driver for the JMicron RAID Controller and set the JMicron Controller mode to AHCI in Bios, with BOOTROM disabled. Now the drive works perfect. Interesting enough however, it lists the drive in Windows Device Manager as WDC WD74 0GD-00FL SCSI Disk Device.
Now I'm just wondering if anyone else had the same experience, and if it's ok to leave it as this (everything seems normal), or will this have ill effects on my Raptor and cause it to die/ruin it.
I'm NOT interested in running RAID, and simply just want to run all 4 of my SATA drives seperately; I originally had a P5B Deluxe but ended up having to RMA it and getting this. Is there anything I should worry about the Windows listing it as a SCSI device or is that just something I shouldn't worry about? Any insight into this would be appreciated, thanks! (especially if it *is* harmful to the drive and I have to change settings, or that I have nothing to worry about
) Oh yeah, I converted from IDE to AHCI mode through this (http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t457699.html) and then updated the Intel Storage Matrix - everything should be ok with these 3 drives too right? (afaik they're all normal through various tests/diagnostics/benches)
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