X58A Strorage Controllers

[Eyghon(GB)]

Just want to check something that's been puzzling me.

I have a X58A-UD7 Rev 1.0 and have 4 HD's and 2 DVD's attached. The HD's are connect to SATA2 0, 1, 2 & 3 (Blue) and the DVD's connected to GSata2 8 & 9. In Device Manager the controllers show up as in the pic but if I do a Properties on each channel it shows as being empty apart from ATA Channel 7 which shows as having one of the DVD's attached. I'm using Win7 64bit.

Is something misconfigured, if so what and how do I fix it.

One other thing in "Devices & Printers" my 2 DVD's show up under Devices when connected to GSATA2 8 & 9, none of the HD's show up in here at the minute although I think they have previously when I tried swapping the drives around.

Regards

Craig

[Dark Mantis]

Everything looks pretty normal to me. I have just checked my Device Manager( I have the same motherboard) and it all looks very similar. There are of course a few differnces but that is to be expected.

I have a similar thing in "Devices and Printers" where  my SATA3 RAID drives show up as storage devices. They are attached to GSATA 8&9 also.

[Eyghon(GB)]

Yeah it does "look" normal but why is it only channel 7 that shows a drive is attached?, you have always been able to view properties for the channel and it would show you if a drive was attached and what mode it was running in and then you could set DMA on or off etc but nothing is showing except Chan7, something must be wrong somewhere, anyone?

[Dark Mantis]

It is because it is SATA not EIDE. You can go into the BIOS and configure the ports to run in IDE mode if you would rather than AHCI.

[Eyghon(GB)]

Sorry mate I doubt it's to do with it being SATA or even AHCI.

I have just checked my Laptop (HP DV9299EA), all 3 channels show as having a device connected (2 SATA HD's and a SATA DVD), the 2xHD's are running UDMA 5 and the DVD Multi-Word DMA 2, the system is running Vista Home Premium.

My old system, which used to be my main system before I upgraded to the UD7 has 2 HD's and 2 DVD's all SATA, the mobo is a Crosshair and it's running Win7 Pro 64bit, once again if you right-click on each controller and go to the advanced tab it will tell you whether a device is connected, what mode it is running in and you can enable\disable DMA.

Something is clearly not correct on the system using the UD7, it is the first system I have ever known where the ATA\IDE channels didn't show a device connected and the mode is was running. I don't know if it is a driver installation issue or what but something is wrong.