Use of the SATA ports on the P55 series

[forumjoe]

On my newly-built P55-US3L, the SATA port that I put my hard drive on is showing as being shared with the first of my two optical drives? How do I get it so that the hard drive gets a channel entirely of its own? The SATA ports are numbered 0 - 5. Is it just a matter of physically moving the SATA cables of the optical drives up by one port, ie leaving the HDD on SATA0 and putting the optical drives on SATA2 and SATA3?

And does anyone know if Nero Express 6 will work on SATA? I've been using Nero Expess 6 successfully on PATA optical drives for years and I'm now hoping that it'll automatically work with the new SATA optical drives. An OEM copy of Nero 8 Essentials came with the new optical drives but I got to like my Nero Expess 6 and .... well .... if it ain't broke why fix it? 

[Dark Mantis]

Hi

It really doesn't matter with SATA drives as they are not the same as the old EIDE drives with master/slave configuration. Gigabyte does confuse the issue slightly with the old method of displaying the drives in BIOS. You can physically move the drives if you want to but there is no need.

Can't help with the Nero part, sorry.

[forumjoe]

So, the fact then that the BIOS is currently showing the HDD and the first optical drive as residing on the master and slave channels of Port 0 will not mean that that first optical drive will slow down the operation of the HDD? That's certainly the case with the old EIDE setup.

[Dark Mantis]

Quite so.