AHCI SSD on Port 0, RAID on ports 2 - 5?

[GuyBooth]

I have a GA-P67A-UD4, and I'm booting from SSD on Port 0 (6Gb/Sec) with RAID hard drives on ports 2 - 5 (3Gb/Sec).
BIOS PCH Sata control mode is set to RAID (XHD), and Windows 7 was installed with that setting.
My SSD software says I am not running AHCI on my SSD, and should switch to AHCI to improve performance.

Is there any way to do this? I don't see how I can set ports 0/1 separately from ports 2-5 ...

[dmdilks]

No you can't it has to be set the 3 ways and that is it. IDE, or Raid, or AHCI. I don't if your board has a Marvell controller. You could set it that way with AHCI if it does.

[GuyBooth]

My board has two eSata 6Gb ports on a Marvell Controller, which can be set to AHCI. If they are bootable, I could run a cable out the back of the machine and plug the SSD into one of those. Seems a little crazy - but is there any reason why it wouldn't work?

[dmdilks]

You can try it but I was talking about on board and not esata. Plus I just took a look at your board.

You should be able to that with the Intel controllers. There should be two different controllers for Intel

I'll download the book and take a look at it.

[dmdilks]

Look at the book and like I said in the 1st post you are stuck at those settings.

[GuyBooth]

Ok, well at least I know I can't do it on the internal SATA.
I tried attaching the SSD to the external SATA drives, and reset the BIOS accordingly. The drive is recognised, but so far I can't get the system to boot from it. It goes as far as the very first Operating System message, then the slow-flashing cursor changes to a fast-flashing cursor in the top left corner, and sits there. I suspect Windows 7 isn't co-operating - perhaps something to do with the drivers? Although - if I boot from an SSD attached to the internal SATA and add a non-boot SSD to the eSata, Windows does recognise the eSata drive.