I have a MSI K9A2 board with AMD 8650 and 500gb Samsung HD501LJ + 64GB WDC WD6400AAKS SATA-HDs working on Sata controller. I have also got a LiteOn dvd writer and TDK CDRW321040B CD-RW on PATA controller and am running Windows XP with Service Pack 3 on this computer. At the XP setup I put Sata mode to IDE in bios because there was no where anything like legacy mode or AHCI. I think that I cannot use an external SATA disk as IDE mode since it does not support plug and play like usb? So, I want to use a eSata connection for my 1TB eSata hard drive as I have both eSATA and USB casing and it will be faster as well. So I was wondering that if I change the SATA mode to RAID then will it give me AHCI function like plug and play? Thanks for any information.
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