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[Chosen.]

Guys, does anyone have their ICH9R setup in the BIOS as AHCI?
I just bought a SATA Solid State Disk which works fine in Compatible/IDE mode, but fails to be detected in AHCI/RAID mode.
Any feedback?

[__Miguel_]

Guys, does anyone have their ICH9R setup in the BIOS as AHCI?
I just bought a SATA Solid State Disk which works fine in Compatible/IDE mode, but fails to be detected in AHCI/RAID mode.

Please define "fails to be detected", and tell us what OS you are using.

Any drive should be detected by any (post-Win9x) OS when in Compatible/IDE mode, including Linux.

The same also happens with Windows Vista and AHCI/RAID modes, since this OS has embedded AHCI and RAID drivers (not sure about Linux on this one).

Windows XP needs what's called an "F6-Install" for ICHx Southbridges running AHCI or RAID mode, because there are no embedded AHCI or RAID drivers on this OS, so you need to either slipstream them on the Windows install CD or F6-Install and provide them in a floppy disk.

My guess is, unless you have a very deep wallet to buy a 32GB+ SSD, you're running Windows XP, so F6-Install is a must. If not, then there can be a BIOS issue you should report to Gigabyte.

Hope this helps.

Cheers.

Miguel