Yes,I hear what you are saying but user should know what they are setting in BIOS,there are lots of ways to change the BIOS setting result in unbootable system not only change AHCI/IDE mode. If they encounter booting failure after changing the BIOS setting,they should restore it.
Using legacy driver for legacy mode won't affect user to enjoy the feature of AHCI,just select AHCI/RAID mode will ok.
As I know, Intel did it in the same way,and I think it's reasonable.
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Peer Chen
2007-09-25
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