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May 9, 2010

I want to run my Debian install in AHCI mode on my computer. It runs perfectly fine, all drivers etc work perfectly also. 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). 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. 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 empty IDE drive attached which will be used for another operating system AFTER I have changed to AHCI mode. The SATA drive has the boot flag. I use GRUB to boot the operating system. My BIOS version from American Megatrends is R01-A3 (not the latest one, but the one I need to use). 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. 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.

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