TechLiam
05-09-2010, 11:38 AM
I have Debian64 and Vista64 installed and they both run perfectly fine, all drivers etc work perfectly also. I also have OSX 10.6.2 installed (installed through VMware). The computer itself is in RAID mode but with all 4 RAID channels disabled (I refuse to use any RAID arrays because I simply don't like them, and that OSX will not detect my boot device in RAID mode, only detects with AHCI or IDE mode enabled). However, my computer (Acer Aspire m3640/m5640, motherboard MCP73PV/630i) has greyed out the option for me to change the option from RAID mode to either IDE or AHCI. Since I do not use RAID at all, I want to change to AHCI but it is greyed out in the BIOS, and I also want OSX to boot.. lol. This option wasn't greyed out before as far as I remember.
I also have Vista x64 installed on a SATA drive along with Debian all partitioned. I also have an IDE drive attached which has OSX installed. The SATA drive has the boot flag. I use GRUB to boot the operating systems. My BIOS version from American Megatrends is R01-A3 (the modified one from Kabyl).
My question is this, how could one possibly go about as to changing it to AHCI mode from RAID with the BIOS greying the option out. Or if not possible, how to make the BIOS ungrey the option (if there is another option preventing it from being changed or if the harddrives need configuring etc). I am not particularly concerned if the drives need to be wiped.
Thanks, Liam
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I also have Vista x64 installed on a SATA drive along with Debian all partitioned. I also have an IDE drive attached which has OSX installed. The SATA drive has the boot flag. I use GRUB to boot the operating systems. My BIOS version from American Megatrends is R01-A3 (the modified one from Kabyl).
My question is this, how could one possibly go about as to changing it to AHCI mode from RAID with the BIOS greying the option out. Or if not possible, how to make the BIOS ungrey the option (if there is another option preventing it from being changed or if the harddrives need configuring etc). I am not particularly concerned if the drives need to be wiped.
Thanks, Liam
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