If there’s anything I’ve learned over the last few days, it’s that setting your SATA controller to standard IDE mode in the BIOS is the best way to go, unless there’s some specific reason that you need to run it in AHCI mode. Setting it to AHCI mode just because you can is crazy. It’s much more hassle than it’s worth. Case in point: I had set up a machine, everything was working fine. After converting the two SATA disks to Dynamic disks in Windows Server 2003 x64, and setting the volume up as a mirror, the system now hangs at the BIOS. I figured it was a problem with one of the drives, so I replaced the suspect drive, converted it to Dynamic, created the mirror, and again it hangs at the BIOS. Well screw it. I’ve switched it to IDE mode and I’m loading Windows from scratch so I don’t have to deal with the headache that is AHCI.
You’ve Won This Round AHCI
July 16th, 2008 by Keith Leave a reply »
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What disadvantage would that have (if any)? Would performance or compatibility suffer at all?