On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 10:36:44PM +0100, Chris Glover wrote:
A couple of questions:-
Is there any peformance penalty using the AHCI BIOS?
AHCI is a VERY well published standard by INtel, and from what I've read, AHCI is the preferred mode if you're rtunning in native SATA mode.
I've beren running a MythTV box with software raid 1 using AHCI mode with no problems at all for the past year.
OK, thanks, so that's a non-issue at least.
I *think* the Ubuntu Desktop version not booting may be because it needs some disk space to unpack the CD contents and I was trying it before I switched on AHCI mode. The Ubuntu Server version doesn't have the CD contents compressed into an archive format so it got a bit further and then told me it couldn't access the hard disk which made it clear what was wrong.