SATA DVD drive - Which port?

[MickDundee]

Hi

I have a Gigabyte X58A-UD3R Revision 1 mobo.

The operation mode for everything is set to AHCI (and yes AHCI drivers installed at the beginning of windows installation)

I just replaced my old IDE DVD drive with a SATA one.

The DVD drive is currently plugged into the number 7 GSATA port.

I have tried it on the number 3 standard SATA port too.

The issues is when I try re-image the computer, it says it can't find a suitable image, and the drive copy speed is slow.

Any help would be great, as its driving me nuts.

Cheers

MD

[Dark Mantis]

Hi

Just to make sure that I am understanding you correctly...when you try and use a previously saved image on DVD disk you have problems with it finding it and speed ?

[MickDundee]

Hi

Just to make sure that I am understanding you correctly...when you try and use a previously saved image on DVD disk you have problems with it finding it and speed ?

Correct. But it is not quite that simple. During the re-imaging process, the system image is identified on the disc, but when I go to run the re-imaging process, it tells me that no suitable system image could be found.

The original installation was corrupted, and I thought that was the problem, so I did a fresh reinstall of windows 7, and the gigabyte drivers, but no luck so far. I tested the optical drive with copying files from a disc directly to the HD, and that worked fine, but it just won't recognise the system image, and I used this system image to back up the system only a week ago. It has been sitting in its case in a cool dry spot for that week, so I doubt it is corrupted.

I really just need to know the correct SATA port to use with for the optical drive while running the system in AHCI, and if running the optical on a SATA port with AHCI might be the problem.

Here are my other specs:

SSD: OCZ Vertex 2 120GB

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500GB

RAM: 12GB Corsair Dominator GT 2000mhz

Audio: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio

Graphics: Nvidia Quadro 600

Cooling: Corsair Hydro H70

Optical: Lite-on iHas324 32 Y DVDRW SATA drive

PSU: 760W

OS: Windows 7 x64

[Dark Mantis]

Well certain optical drives do not seem to like AHCI particularly so it might be worth trying IDE mode on that controller instead. You have already done the sensible thing and moved it to a seperate controller to the hard drive.

One thing I still wasn't sure of was whether the image was written on this optical drive or the previous one.

[MickDundee]

Well certain optical drives do not seem to like AHCI particularly so it might be worth trying IDE mode on that controller instead. You have already done the sensible thing and moved it to a seperate controller to the hard drive.

One thing I still wasn't sure of was whether the image was written on this optical drive or the previous one.

It was created on the old IDE optical, but I just tried connecting the old optical and reimaging from that, got the same result.

It just keeps saying "no disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found".

I have decided to do a fresh install, only one issue. When I load up the raid/ahci preinstall drivers during the win 7 installation, it mentions that unsigned 64 bit drivers aren't supported. Does this mean the drivers won't install?

[Dark Mantis]

It sounds to me like that disk that you wrote on the old drive wasn't any good in the first place.

They will probably install anyway but it is just a warning. What particular drivers are you talking about ?

[MickDundee]

It sounds to me like that disk that you wrote on the old drive wasn't any good in the first place.

They will probably install anyway but it is just a warning. What particular drivers are you talking about ?

The RAID/AHCI preinstall drivers from Gigabyte support. The ones you need to load at the beginning of a fresh Windows 7 installation for AHCI to work.

Its okay though. I have done a fresh install, and everything seems to be running smoothly, no errors or warnings, so I think it might have been an issue with a corrupted installation. Sometimes a fresh install is what is needed.

I changed the SATA optical to port 3 as they are operating on IDE Native mode, and the copy speed has increased x 5, so you were right about the optical not liking AHCI.

Thanks for all your help DM, but I'm good to go now.

Cheers

[Dark Mantis]

Glad to be of service and to hear that your system is playing properly now.