Can I run two drives in AHCI and IDE together?

[woodingday]

I have an SSD I want to run in AHCI and a large standard hardrive to run in IDE. Can I run both in different modes on the same machine or does AHCI mode apply to all drives?

 

[alexoiu]

What motherboard?

 

[woodingday]

Sorry for the late response, it's a Asrock Z97 Extreme6 Socket LGA 1150

 

[alexoiu]

No problem. Yes, Connect the HDD to an ASMedia SATA port and the SSD to an Intel one. Set in BIOS ASMedia SATA3 Mode to IDE.

 

[SBMfromLA]

Why would you want to do that? Your regular hard drive will work fine with AHCI mode. One thing you need to factor in is... extra drivers would have to be loaded on boot and could add a few seconds to your boot time into Windows.