I installed BIOS F6 yesterday and loaded optimized defaults. At that point, I could boot from the MemTest+ CD in my Blu-Ray drive, which was attached to the SATA (6-channel) controller. In the POST screen the Blu-Ray drive was listed on IDE Channel 2 Master.
Then I enabled XHD (eXtreme Hard Disk) and rebooted.
The Blu-Ray drive was not listed at all.
As the RAID display appeared, it saw "Pioneer CD Blu-Ray", but did not list it as a physical device after I hit ^I.
I let the boot go through into Setup and nothing was listed on IDE channel 2 master.
The POST finished and I got
Loading Operating System...
Boot from CD-ROM...
And the system hung there. Repeatably. After five minutes of hang time I disabled XHD and everything went back to normal.
The RAID controller POST screen says "This version only supports hard disk and CDROM drives" -- knowing the language barrier I'd be grateful if someone could point out if this indeed means that DVD and Blu-Ray drives are NOT supported in RAID mode.
Thank you.
Mark