Onboard sata mode for dual boot setup

[Cold-Gin]

Hi. I just bought a new machine and a secondary hard drive. Both drives are SATA drives. In the BIOS, the onboard sata mode is set to RAID.

I would like to set up a dual boot configuration; one drive for Linux, the second drive for *******. What is the proper onboard sata mode setting for this? The available options are RAID, AHCI, IDE.

Thank you for your time.

[tosk]

You'll want either AHCI or IDE.

AHCI will provide better performance, but may require special drivers during Windows setup. Linux should be fine.

IDE provides more compatibility. In a nutshell, the BIOS translates IDE commands to SATA commands before sending them on to the drive.

I'd go with AHCI. That way you can use full SATA2 speed.