On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Phillip Susi [off-list ref] wrote:

On 2/3/2015 2:32 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote:

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The BIOS shows the regular Primary/Secondary IDE Master/Slave (to
which only the CDROM is attached) alongside SATA. It doesn't seem
like SATA is the option, bu rather that both IDE and SATA are seen
as current usable interfaces (at the time the BIOS was released:
2010). It does have NVRAID, which is disabled (i use mdadm).

Typically there is a knob that toggles between three states: IDE,
AHCI, and RAID.  RAID really is AHCI just with a different PCI
identifier that causes windows to load their proprietary driver that
does the software raid.  If you only have an on/off switch for the
raid, then try switching it on.

A knob? You mean a knob on the motherboard? No such thing (that i can
see). A jumper perhaps? I'll check the manual.
As for BIOS RAID, every howto and tutorial i read about software
RAID/mdadm advices aggainst using the BIOS RAID implementation as it's
usually quite lacking in terms of quality.

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There is no mention of AHCI that i could find.

Maybe it never got to this BIOS. Maybe there is something AHCI-related
in NVRAID, i never poked into that.