D975xbx2 and SATA drives

[WilburNJ]

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.

[BlueMagic]

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

[ubiquityman]

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?

[WilburNJ]

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