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AHCI and optical drives
I am completing a new build PC on a Gigabyte GA-H55MHUD2H board using SATA hdd. For the first time I have bought a SATA (rather than the common, legacy IDE) optical drive by Samsung model SH-S223 22x. I stumbled across a forum post warning against selecting AHCI because lock-ups and BSOD events would be caused by the combination of an optical drive and AHCI mode. I subsequently found a specific reference to this Samsung drive by a guy who like me had purchased it fitting into a new build. With AHCI mode on it would not even boot from the DVD Win 7 installations disk!!!!!
I am reluctant to engage myself in all the hassle for overcoming the deficiencies of these hardware incompatibilities but for one thing - I bought a very nice Coolermaster 690 II Advance case and it has a sexy SATA hdd dock very conveniently placed on top of the case which I planned to use as a hot swap port slipping in an hdd for convenient transfer and file backup.
Can anyone shed light on these problems and confirm whether or not they are now resolved? A shufty at the Gigabyte and Samsung websites turned up nothing but I guess it is a BIOS problem anyway? Perhaps I should stick with IDE mode and patiently power down between docking and undocking the portable hdd.