I have all of the Intel SATA ports in use, with 2 of them RAID 0. I would like to use a single external drive (NextStar 3 enclosure) using the internal connector supplied with the enclosure in the red Marvell e-sata port with no other drives on that controller. When I turn the drive on and boot the Marvell BIOS scans for drives and says there are none attached. Then Windows (XPPro) hangs when trying to boot. The drive works fine when connected via USB. Anyone have this type of setup working? If so what is the trick?
I have a seagate e-sata drive on the red sata Marvel Controller. This is what worked for me. I went into the Marvel Raid setup by pressing control-m . The controller recognized the drive. The only options were to define the kind of raid setup. I cancelled out and the drive was still recognized even though it wasn't a raid setup. I then got a mesage after rebooting that bootmgr is missing. I went into the bios and included the seagate drive , which was recognized, in the boot order even though I don't have an operating system on the drive. After that, the system boots normally. I can turn the drive on or off at will apparently without problems. Again this worked for me. I don't know if there is a better way of doing it, but I couldn't get it to function any other way.
Hmmmm. When i press ctrl-m the Marvel controller does not recognize that there is a drive connected. Any idea why, or what I can do to get this to happen?
Do you have the proper cable? I bought a pci type adapter that has an e-sata connector externally with a sata connector wire which fits the red port on Marvell.
I am using the cable supplied with the external enclosure. The drive is not recognized by the Marvell controller during boot. Are you talking about Windows drivers, or something for the BIOS?
I'M talking about the Marvell raid controller drivers. You got a floppy for f6 install with the motherboard. In your application you don't need the f6 You need the driver on the intel website for Marvell Raid.
I did install the drivers for Windows (F6 during Windows install). My thinking is that there is some problem with the controller since it does not find the drive during the POST. The Marvell BIOS comes up, but after a while it reports no drives found.
Problem solved! I opened my system up and connected the bare drive to the Marvell SATA port directly and found that I had to configure the drive as 150 MB/S to get the controller to recognize it. I have re-installed it into my eSATA enclosure and it works! Thanks for taking the time to help rwolds9.
Look in control panel under storage controllers. You should see both the Intel and Marvell listed. If you do then you have the drivers. The other Marvell driver on the website installs a program that shows all the drives attached to the controller. I would be interested to know if it shows there. The reason I asked about the cable is that my drive came with an e-sata cable. It would not fit into the red port directly, ie different connector from sata. Thats why I had to get the pci adapter, one end of which was e-sata and the other sata. Is your drive sata or e-sata? If its sata, will that function on the red port?I don't know the answer to that but wonder if its part of the problem?
Glad all is well. Building computers can be awfully frustrating. There is a lack of instruction available from the manufacturers. Luckily there are forums like this one available.
Rich
