I keep reading about how SSD drives are either being run in IDE or AHCI "mode". Is this a setting of the drive itself or is this just a motherboard (or CMOS, or BIOS, or whatever) setting?
My situation: I have a Plextor M5S SSD drive that I'd like to use in an older model VOIP system (3com NBX 100) that needs an IDE hard drive with a bidirectional IDE <=> SATA adapter.
The drive is imaged with the contents of the original disk but when I put it in the machine it's not recognized.
Furthermore I tried putting this concoction into an old desktop computer (since the NBX isn't very forthcoming with useful output), and in this desktop it's recognized by BOIS on the secondary IDE port but not on the primary.
My question is, why am I insane?
My situation: I have a Plextor M5S SSD drive that I'd like to use in an older model VOIP system (3com NBX 100) that needs an IDE hard drive with a bidirectional IDE <=> SATA adapter.
The drive is imaged with the contents of the original disk but when I put it in the machine it's not recognized.
Furthermore I tried putting this concoction into an old desktop computer (since the NBX isn't very forthcoming with useful output), and in this desktop it's recognized by BOIS on the secondary IDE port but not on the primary.
My question is, why am I insane?