SATA drive setup

Have 2 SATA drives. NOT planning to set up in a RAID configuration so,
In the BIOS should they be set up as IDE or AHCI. The drives will be
partitioned. I'm new at this type of HD so a bit confused. According
to the manual to gain anything, drives should be set to AHCI. The
first partition of the first drive will be the OS boot drive. Any help
appreciated

Mr. Bro

Mr. Bro wrote:


Have 2 SATA drives. NOT planning to set up in a RAID configuration so,
In the BIOS should they be set up as IDE or AHCI.

Mr. Bro replied, "According to the manual to gain anything, drives
should be set to AHCI."

The drives will be partitioned
The first partition of the first drive will be the OS boot drive.



Any help appreciated

"How to install a SATA hard drive"

http://www.pctechbytes.com/computer/article-20.html


Mr. Bro

Wrong NG, Mr. Bro.

"Mr. Bro" wrote in message
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Have 2 SATA drives. NOT planning to set up in a RAID configuration so,
In the BIOS should they be set up as IDE or AHCI. The drives will be
partitioned. I'm new at this type of HD so a bit confused. According
to the manual to gain anything, drives should be set to AHCI. The
first partition of the first drive will be the OS boot drive. Any help
appreciated

Mr. Bro

Just do a Google search for AHCI. I got this is 1 sec.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance...ller_Interface

Seems to be a used only for a RAID set up and then only in Vista unless you
have special drivers for XP. I'd leave the BIOS set to IDE if I where you.
JLC

Sorry, wrong NG.

If you're able to install sata hard drives then there should be something in
your BIOS. I've set several up in different computers and if you can install
sata drives then in the BIOS there should be some options like non raid, or
sata and pata (if you've got dvd or cd drives that aren't sata) or something
like that. Just keep looking and you'll find it!