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Determine/Detect if AHCI is Enabled? Working?

My SSD Drive is faster because.

  • It's not IDE

    Votes: 3 42.9%

  • Benchmarking software proves it's faster than SATA

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • IDE is MUCH slower than IDE even with the SSD

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • SSD's speed increase is tiny and a waste of time

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • My write speed is 250 and read is around 200

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I find this poll very useless and off-topic.

    Votes: 4 57.1%
  • Total voters
    7
  • Poll closed .
A

axelrose

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My Motherboard is GA-EP45-UD3P (Rev 1.1)
My Boot Drive with Windows 7 x64 is Crucial's SSD M255 (128 GB)

I have set the following 4 options to make sure AHCI mode is ON With my boot drive 128GB Crucial SSD.

Integrated Peripherals
SATA RAID/AHCI Mode (Intel ICH10R Southbridge) ............. AHCI
SATA Port0-3 Native Mode .................................................. Enabled

Onboard SATA/IDE Device (GIGABYTE SATA2 Chip) ............. Enabled
Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode (GIGABYTE SATA2 Chip) ........... IDE

All this is setup in the BIOS, but where of where is some software to tell me YES AHCI is working?

Is there a clue, software, anything to test to determine if I am AHCI instead of IDE Mode?

Please help.
 
I'm surprised at how there isn't any apparent program to just tell you this information when I searched... but I like and second this guy's post.
http://forums.hexus.net/1889069-post2.html
Change back to AHCI after.

There were less "brutal" ways to check by seeing if TRIM (for SSD) or NCQ (for HDD) were enabled or not, but I didn't like that as a standard way of checking because what if the person's particular drive doesn't actually support that feature?
 
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I have the same board and can tell you with certainty that AHCI is faster with a SSD. If you want to test to see if it's actually using AHCI just change the BIOS settings to RAID or IDE and you'll notice that it won't boot. If you have it set to AHCI, it's set to AHCI. Maybe i'm not following you here. Do you think that your board isn't actually using AHCI even though you set it to?
 
From my experience you'll get AS SSD scores of around 460 in AHCI mode with a C300.

Here's a comparison of a Sandforce based G.Skill drive in AHCI mode and IDE mode. Note that AS SSD reports the drive as using the 'iaStor' driver when in AHCI mode and 'pciide' when in IDE mode.

AS SSD also shows if your drive is aligned correctly under that by reporting 'OK' in green or 'BAD' in red. If you have installed under Win7 it will align automatically for you and should be ok. The easiest way to align an XP install is to hook the drive up temporarily to a Win7 box and make a partition and format it. Then when in your XP install choose the "use existing file format" option.

Post up your scores in that other thread when you get everything running!
 
I have several images displaying my benchmarks from several different programs but I cannot post attachment to any message.

If anyone knows how to attach please let me know, otherwise it's all tect.

thanks
 
axlrose - images aren't "attached", you need to provide a link from where you are hosting images. I personally think that dropbox.com (free for up to 2gb) is the easiest way to host images (sign up and watch their intro video).
 
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