First, let me note that I wouldn't consider it cool to forward email with tech support to a mailing list, complete with your s/n's, etc. Jason Pyeron wrote: > That's problem. AHCI is the standard for SATA, running modern SATA drives, > especially SSD require the AHCI command structure. Running modern SATA > drives in IDE (ATA) mode is not readily supported. <snip> I also missed the beginning of this thread: what model Dell server is this? mark