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From: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: SATA disks disabled on boot
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 08:43:08 -0500
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On 2/9/2015 8:02 AM, Nuno Magalh=C3=A3es wrote:
> A knob? You mean a knob on the motherboard? No such thing (that i
> can see). A jumper perhaps? I'll check the manual.

No, I meant a setting in the bios.

> As for BIOS RAID, every howto and tutorial i read about software=20
> RAID/mdadm advices aggainst using the BIOS RAID implementation as
> it's usually quite lacking in terms of quality.

Putting the controller into raid mode !=3D *using* the fakeraid
capability.  In other words, just don't create a raid array in the
bios utility and the disks will be used normally, while still
operating in AHCI mode.


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