AHCI without RAID - Win7 Drivers?

[cookie365]

Hi all

Am planning on installing Win7 64 bit.

Motherboard is a Gigabyte M720 US3 - only launched this year.

When I used XP I had my SATA drives set to IDE mode and never needed to install drivers.

But I now have 4 SATA drives and want more flexibility. I understand that AHCI will allow more than 4 drives plus eSATA and other improvements.

If I set my mobo to AHCI mode but not RAID will I still need to install drivers on Win7 64 or is that just for RAID?

Can I do that from a USB drive if I don't have a floppy?

Thanks

[blueball]

win7 seems to have all drivers already installed - i didnt need to install any for my controller

[cookie365]

Thanks blueball

[aidanjt]

Correct, AHCI (and even most BIOS-RAID, AHCI implimentations) works out of the box, as Vista did.