All 3 of my hdd's are WD Caviar 320gb SATA. one's in the nextar, the other 2, including the one with my windows installation, are on the intel ICH7R ports...

So, first off let me apologize for a small oversight, I can put only the jmicron into AHCI mode (this wasnt the case before... I flashed my bios just a few days ago.)

Problem remains... the drive doesnt hotswap, and while having the jmicron in AHCI mode, I loose all the IDE controllers... Both my dvd burners (samsung 18x PATA, 1 hooked up to the ICH7R IDE controller, the other in the jmicron one) are non-operational.