> That brings up a question...what *should* it be? It was set in the > BIOS to IDE. As I understand it, to get the most speed/features out > of these drives, it should be set to AHCI, correct? Correct - AHCI turns on all the features like queued commands that make SATA actually any more than PATA with a funny cable. > Also, I've already done a couple OS installs on these drives, so it > would appear changing the setting to AHCI will cause me to reinstall > those OS's. Possibly. Some older OS's (Linux and non Linux) also lack AHCI support entirely.
