On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: <SNIP> > > Well, according to the mobo book, AHCI "enables advanced SATA features". > Me, I read that and I think that it may mean faster. It also says it is > set to native by default for OS's that can handle only native mode > controllers. I just don't want to try it without making sure it is not > going to lead to some sort of file system problems or something. I did some > Googling but most of the stuff I find is from years ago and things have > changed a lot since then. > > Thanks for the info. > > Dale
In my experience the Intel BIOS stuff effected booting from internal SATA drives. If it worked it didn't create any other problems that I saw. IIRC there were some kernel driver options to get the right things built in which would of course be required to boot. Hope this helps, Mark
