On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Wednesday 15 December 2010 05:54:40 Dale wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>>> According to the mobo manual, if I enable AHCI, it is hot swappable. >>>> >>> >>> and enabling AHCI is the only sane option. So do it. >>> >>> >>>> >>>> I >>>> just ain't to comfy doing it. I'd like to see it done with no smoke >>>> getting out first. >>>> >>> >>> no smoke. Worst case: controller hangs, you have to reboot. >>> >>> >>> >> >> The worst case is _slightly_ worse than that, but certainly no smoke. >> Some systems (my 6 drive RAID compute server for instance) changes >> drive mapping between AHCI and compatibility modes so I had to adjust >> /etc/fstab. If Dale is using labels of some type he will likely be >> better off than I was. >> >> There certainly won't be any harm caused by changing the BIOS setting >> to AHCI and trying it out. Reboot and change BIOS back is all he would >> have to do in my experience. >> >> - Mark >> >> > > Are the drives any faster when using AHCI tho? If the speed is the same > then I may try it next time I reboot but not real sure why it would matter. > I was hoping for something even faster. > > Dale
I suspect they might be faster but you'd have to benchmark them yourself to find out. I never did that or don't remember the results if I did. - Mark
