Windows 10: CD/DVD burner will not work in AHCI mode, do you have a fix?

It is possible that eLPuSHeR is exaggerating about "50% slower under IDE mode" or is simply looking at the benchmarks. I recently changed two of my 7-64 machines from IDE (the Gigabyte default) to AHCI, using the mobo's split system to leave the DVD in IDE. Yes, the benchmarks went up significantly, but the increase in performance was quite tiny. In both instances, the boot SSD is a Crucial M4 128, correctly aligned. In July this year, I built a muck-around general-use/internet computer using a Gig mobo without a split system and an AMD A6 2-core 3.8GHz. Popped in a mid-pace Intel SSD correctly aligned, second-hand Vista Biz 32, IDE mode, and she flies like a demon. To summarize: the benefits of AHCI are usually overstated. IDE is not a dirty word.

 

I've been wondering about this too, since being advised at the Slysoft forum to use AHCI for my burner to help resolve a problem I'm having with AnyDVD. My mobo is a Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H (purchased August 2012) and my burner is an LG WH14NS40. The mobo has just one setting for all SATA ports, but it clearly supports IDE because that's what my burner is using. And it doesn't seem that the burner can run as AHCI. LG has no drivers for it, and a firmware upgrade didn't make any difference (I didn't think it would, but what the heck).

I'm not very concerned, though. I've got a longer delay after AnyDVD scans than I had with 7, but it works in 10, and I've ready elsewhere what has been posted here, i.e., that AHCI will make little or no difference in speed for a burner.