alright. well i've taken all the steps here and my bios doesn't have any switching options :/
Intel Matrix Storage Console syas my Hitachi HD is Intel ICH9M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller
attached I have photos from my bios menu.
fyi this is a hp hdx16t-1200 laptop
any help is so much appreciated!!
Thank you!
I was looking at a different system of mine (Asus P4P800S-X) running XP. In the BIOS it has an option to set Enhanced mode for the SATA/ATA controller. The option is PATA, SATA, SATA+PATA. I have PATA+SATA set for Enhanced. I connected a storage IDE drive(WD Blue 500GB 32MB 7200K PATA) drive and another storage Drive which is SATA (Samsung HD103SI 5400 Eco Green). The OS drive is a standard 80GB SATA WD 7200K drive.
Anyhow my questions are, what is enhanced moded when PATA is involved? Can an IDE drive run in AHCI mode????
AHCI is a function of SATA, it uses the NCQ (Native Command Queuing) functionality of the Serial-ATA controller to improve random read and random write times on SATA drives (it does a bit more than just that, but that's where most people see the biggest improvement).. So, unfortunately, no it won't work on IDE drives.
I'm not sure how it fits into your question, because enhanced originally had nothing to do with AHCI, it was regarding whether a drive was designed to use an 80 wire cable vs a 40 wire cable, and thereby operate at a higher speed:
EIDE Vs. IDE Cable Compatibility | eHow.com
Why this would be an option on a modern motherboard is beyond me, unless they are using the term enhanced in a different fashion. Are you certain of exactly what enhanced means in your situation?
I think you are right. My chipset is ICH5 so I do not believe that supports AHCI at all. Oh well.......Guess this mobo isnt that good after all. It is an older system but it does run really good for an older system. It is an Intel P4 3.2 ghz.....OC'd a lil....3333 Mhz is what it runs at cool and stable.... Just no AHCI....You guys think if I ordered a cheap PCI VIA SATA card that gave me the ability to run in AHCI, would I really notice any difference in speed. I have a new WD Blue 500GB IDE HD and on this system it transfers at about 72MB's and I have a Samsung HD103si SATA 1TB HD and it runs at about 92MB's so I am wondering if AHCI would really be noticable. I can get an add on PCI card on ebay for 5 to 10 bucks.
Looking at the I/O Controller Hub page on Wiki, the first mention I find to AHCI is on ICH6, so unfortunately that would seem to be the case. It would help a lot if you could tell me the make and model of your motherboard, then (if you want) I could do more digging for you?
When I switched from straight SATA to AHCI mode, my experience was that it did give a small improvement in speed, but more so on my larger drives than the smaller ones, and it helped a fair amount with drives that had heavier fragmentation. It won't make your PC 'feel' faster though, it's just a number game at the end of the day, much like the WEI system I guess...
Basically, I'd say it's worth looking into if your current hardware supports it, but if you need to buy expansion cards to enable AHCI, then it wouldn't really be worth while.. I'd suggest keep the money a SATA controller card would cost and put it towards an upgrade instead.
OK I've got a MSI H55M-ED55 board and I followed BFKs instructions, and WIN7 seemed to load the drivers. Went in to the BIOS and saw AHCI enabled, it showed my HD and DVD drive (both are SATA) but not my SATA HD which is
in a cradle connected to the eSATA port. I've tried 3 different cradles, 2 Thermaltake Black Xs and one Voyager from new world computing. Could the eSATA port be bad?
zalith, i need your help. can you please go look at my posts on your start orb tutorial?
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