SATA, going from IDE mode to AHCI Mode???

GAMEfreak

GAMEfreak

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Hey there. I have a gigabyte DS4 motherboard, and a 250GB Hitachi Deskstar T7K500. I want to enable NCQ and such, and do as much as poss to improve the performance of my HDD. the final step of this is to get this done. anyway, When I set my BIOS to run the onboard SATA controller in AHCI mode, when i go to boot this RAID/SATA utility appears, and detects my SATA DVD-RW drive, but not my HDD. any ideas why? it seems that there are two controllers on board, one controlled by an ICH8R chip, and another by a Ggabyte SATA2 chip. would i be correct in thinking i have to change the port the hard drive is connected to, to get this working? or am i missing utilities of some sort. please advise :confused: , cheers in advance.
 
i see, and is the added bandwidth worth it ? i just find my hard drive is the slowest part of the damn machine. whats the use in a overclocked c2d when you cant max it out because your HDD is too slow :mad: maybe its time i invest in a flash drive...
 
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