Thank you for replying Markus. This is the first time I've heard the term AHCI. I did some googling and read up on it. From what I understand, AHCI is a mode you can set in the BIOS. I dug through the system BIOS and the BIOS on both cards and found no such setting. The cards are extremely cheap soft-RAID cards that I purchased simply so I could get 8 400GB SATA drives into my server case.
So to answer "What stops you from switching to AHCI?" I would have to say to things: 1. No clue how to enable AHCI 2. If it's a BIOS setting, it appears my cards don't support it. -Aaron > Am 25.12.2007 um 23:35 schrieb Aaron C. de Bruyn: > >> Can anyone provide me with some guidance on how to resolve this issue? Am >> I overblowing the issue since I am affected? > > Just to understand the problem better: > > Exposing SATA drives as IDE drives to the OS appears to be a temporary > solution until all SATA driver programmers ( Hello Intel :-) ) have catched > up and made an AHCI driver available. Ubuntu runs in AHCI mode just fine, > even on a board which lacks a proper driver for Windows XP. AHCI is > noticeable faster than IDE. > > What stops you from switching to AHCI? > > > Markus > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter > http://www.jump-ing.de/ > > > > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss