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Hi,

Looking for some help on a newly assembled PC with the Intel D975xbx2 mobo plus 3 sata hard drives and 1 sata dvd burner. Here's the situation and I can't seem to find a solution anywhere:

When I try to raid 2 of my hard drives, 2 x 300gb maxtors, (using matrix, not marvell), the BIOS loses my DVD burner in the "Boot" section towards the right side of the BIOS menu, although the burner still appears as a drive under the drive section. This makes it impossible to boot from the Vista disc in the dvd burner. As soon as I drop the raid designation and flip these drives to "IDE", the burner again shows up in the boot menu. (BTW, I have Marvell turned off at this point.)

Also, I can't seem to get the system to recognize anything connected to the marvell sata ports, even if in the marvell part of the boot process it may indicate that a drive is present.

Any thought on this problem would be greatly appreciated.

Did you load the driver for the Marvell controller ?
I have my SATA DVD burner connected there and it works OK.

WilburNJ, I'm having a problem with SATA devices connected to the Marvell SATA ports. If I have any devices connected to these ports, the computer will not resume from S3 Standby properly.

When I check the "Power State Mappings" for any drive connected to the Marvell control (DVD or HD), they show up like this:


However, the same drives connected to non-Marvel SATA ports on another computer are OK.


So, if you don't mind, could you have a look at yours and let me know what it says, and, also, do you mind trying S3 Standby mode on your computer to see if it works properly?

Ubiquityman,

Sorry, but I'm not actually using the marvell sata ports, so I can't check for you. I ended up using an IDE DVD writer and have 4 hard drive (all not in RAID) because of the trouble I was having.

Good luck with you issues.

Wilbur