On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 16:02 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
> > Alan M. Evans wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 15:03 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >>
> >>> I read this mail 12 times and it is still a mystery to
> > I asked in hopes someone like you would help. Now I know what it is
> > and I have the manual for my new motherboard and it doesn't mention
> > it, thank goodness :-)
> >
> > Google has a lot about ACHI and it is all BAD ;-)
> It seems Windows users have more trouble than Linux users and it appears
> if you are using RAID you can't use ACHI. It is implied that if you
> don't use ACHI the speed of data transfer will be reduced in Serial Hard
> Drives. So it is the old Lose-Lose situation where you never want to be.
AHCI vs. RAID is not an issue in a laptop.
The AHCI controller works fine in WinXP, but currently F7 can't even see
it. Hence my question.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
