SATA RAID/AHCI Mode [Disabled] << RAID
SATA Port0-3 Native Mode [Enabled] << This can be enabled or not, it just allows the system to assing a IRQ or not to the ports
Press Control + I on the IRQ screen at bootup time to enter the Intel RAID ROM and setup your RAID Array. The note at the bottom of the screen
Integrated Peripherals
RAID On the Intel ICH10R (Blue Ports)
SATA RAID/AHCI Mode (Intel ICH10R Southbridge) …………. RAID
SATA Port0-3 Native Mode …………………………….. Enabled (or Disabled, both will work)
RAID on the Gigabyte/J.Micron (White Ports)
Onboard SATA/IDE Device (GIGABYTE SATA2 Chip) …………. Enabled
Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode (GIGABYTE SATA2 Chip) ……….. RAID/IDE << The IDE is only there to show/remind you that your Actual IDE Devices will be in IDE/PATA mode as normal
Note
J.Micron can do RAID or AHCI or IDE as well
You can switch from IDE to AHCI and AHCI to IDE yes on ICH10R, but NOT TO RAID.
NO switching from RAID to anything, or anything to RAID without a Clean install.
And you cannot switch a AHCI or RAID from the ICH10R to the J.Micron Ports either, or the other way around.
You can Move an IDE install to and from either though
