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Got it working (YeeHAW!!) Just a matter of getting the Marvell drivers loaded and working. I'd loaded these manually with no luck. If they're loaded and working, you WILL see the Marvell controller in Device Manager under SCSI and RAID controllers. I never saw that, but missed the yellow (?) under &...

Thanks for the comment, vb. I was looking at the Product guide -- hadn't seen the technical spec book before. Interesting! From what I can tell, the "other" 4 ports (red and blue) are controlled using a Marvell SATA controller. The red port is for external SATA, but I'm not sure why it's a...

Thanks- Yeah, I read about the optical and boot problems (and actually, if optical worked on the Marvell ports, I could as easily load all the hard drives on the black connectors). Not to be, though. It's mostly acting like Windows doesn't see the secondary controller at all. I'll try the F6 thing, ...

The manual states on Page 18:

Serial ATA
The desktop board supports eight Serial ATA channels, connecting one device per
channel in either a RAID or a non-RAID configuration.

Non-RAID would seem to indicate that the other 4 channels can be run without RAID.

Hi - new here and there seems to be some BX2 experience on this board. Man, I need some. :cry: I've got a BX2 system I built about 4 months ago. I originally set it up with 2 SATA DVD burners and 2 640 Gig SATA hard drives (all on the black connectors). Works fine, and I'm running Windows XP Home, S...