I saw a related question on another post for a different board and it got me thinking again on this but didn't want to hijack that discussion.
So, is there much difference in running a SATA controller in IDE mode vs AHCI mode .. esp in speed terms?
@absic115 I know you said it'd be working at SATA speeds, but the idea of using calling it IDE in any way when its actually SATA isn't sinking in at all
I'm using Fedora 13 x86_64 OS. Curious to know if anyone has tried this on Linux (I understand that the latest kernel supports AHCI natively)? Would there be any noticeable transfer speed difference due to native command queueing in situations like video editing etc? I'm unable to try it out just yet till I can back up my data onto an external drive.
I understand this setting could come handy when connecting eSATA drives due to the hot plug feature.
I was thinking of setting the options on the mobo as below:
OnChip IDE Channel [Enabled]
OnChip SATA Controller [Enabled]
OnChip SATA Type [AHCI]
x OnChip SATA Port 4/5 Type IDE
http://download.gigabyte.ru/manual/mb_manual_ga-ma785gt-ud3h_e.pdf Link to Manual here if you fancy reading it .. Section 2-6, pg 49.