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About this blog: Computers hate me. They really do. Every time I try to do something unusual like add new hardware, something is guaranteed to go wrong. I decided to start writing about my constant problems so that someone else might benefit from my experiences - or at least laugh at them!

07 May 2008, 10:32pm

Realised tonight that AHCI cannot be enabled per drive - it's all or nothing in the Gigabyte EX38-DS4 BIOS. Unfortunately the SATA to CompactFlash card adapter I have doesn't seem to support AHCI; the drive is not detected. I'm not really sure how much benefit AHCI would provide in this instance (a 5 x 750GB RAID3 array used for NAS and backups) but I've chosen to be conventional and install the OS on a standard mechanical drive, rather than fool around with CF and lose that potential benefit for every SATA device.