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Hi everyone,
Sorry if this is kind of off-topic, but I know I'll get an intelligent response here.
My system is P8P67. I've got hard drives on all the internal SATA ports (Intel ICH6 and Marvell 1923), all running in AHCI mode, formatted and operating nicely, both in Windows 7 and Lion.
Now, I need to use a certain piece of software which will be accessing a SATA DVD drive which will be attached to one of the ICH6 headers, and here's the kicker... this software requires IDE mode to access the drive correctly.
What will happen if I switch SATA from AHCI to IDE mode in BIOS? Will I still be able to boot from my Win 7 drive, even though its entire life has been an AHCI one? Will I have difficulty booting back into either of my boot volumes if I then go back into BIOS and switch back to AHCI mode?
I guess I'm unclear if these two modes are incompatible with the same disk format between the two of them; can you create and format and use a disk under AHCI, and then just switch to IDE and have everything function (without SMART, NCQ, etc.) okay still?
Sorry if this is kind of off-topic, but I know I'll get an intelligent response here.
My system is P8P67. I've got hard drives on all the internal SATA ports (Intel ICH6 and Marvell 1923), all running in AHCI mode, formatted and operating nicely, both in Windows 7 and Lion.
Now, I need to use a certain piece of software which will be accessing a SATA DVD drive which will be attached to one of the ICH6 headers, and here's the kicker... this software requires IDE mode to access the drive correctly.
What will happen if I switch SATA from AHCI to IDE mode in BIOS? Will I still be able to boot from my Win 7 drive, even though its entire life has been an AHCI one? Will I have difficulty booting back into either of my boot volumes if I then go back into BIOS and switch back to AHCI mode?
I guess I'm unclear if these two modes are incompatible with the same disk format between the two of them; can you create and format and use a disk under AHCI, and then just switch to IDE and have everything function (without SMART, NCQ, etc.) okay still?