GA-H67MA-UD2H-B3 won't work with SATA-III Drives connected to its SATA-III Ports

[Lsdmeasap]

SATA 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s cables are the same, unless the 3Gb/s ones are crap they should work fine anyway.

[Dark Mantis]

I thought that SATA3 cables had the clip integrated and better shielding ?

[Lsdmeasap]

Nope, it's all the same as quality SATA 3Gb/s cables, cheap ones might not work so great though?  Clips were introduced with SATA 3Gb/s

9: Does SATA 6Gb/s require different connectors and cables to support the higher
transfer speed?

A9: The same cables and connectors used for current SATA 1.5 and SATA 3.0 Gb/s implementations can be used to connect SATA 6Gb/s devices, although SATA-IO recommends quality components be selected to ensure data integrity and robust operation at the faster SATA 6Gb/s transfer rate.  Keeping the existing SATA connector form factor enables SATA 6Gb/s to be designed into the same cost-conscious hardware architectures while minimizing infrastructure changes.  

http://www.serialata.org/documents/SATA-Revision-3.0-FAQ-FINAL.pdf

http://www.serialata.org/technology/6Gbdetails.asp

[Dark Mantis]

I bow to you all powerful Intel god!

[Lsdmeasap]

Haha, now that's going to far man!

Cheap SATA 3Gb/s cables may cause issues, but I have yet to find any myself.   I've even tested $1.00 ones without any problems, so not sure how cheap you'd have to go to get some bad ones. 

[Dark Mantis]

Will you accept demi-god ?

[IsLNdbOi]

Still haven't found a solution to this.  I think I'm going to buy a new GA-H67MA-UD2H-B3 to see if it has the same problem.

[Lsdmeasap]

Will you accept demi-god ?

Haha, ya I suppose that's ok!  Thanks

Still haven't found a solution to this.  I think I'm going to buy a new GA-H67MA-UD2H-B3 to see if it has the same problem.

I would look at other drives first instead (As in different brand), I think it's more of a drive issue than board but I could be wrong?

[IsLNdbOi]

Interesting.  The problem seems to be fixed now.

I had another problem with a "phantom" floppy drive controller:
http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,4859.0.html

After I installed the beta BIOS, it fixed the floppy drive controller problem AND the SATA-III issues went away too.

[Dark Mantis]

Maybe it was something that they fixed in this BIOS update as they knew about the problem.

[IsLNdbOi]

Did they know about the SATA-III issue already?  Other than me emailing them about it, I thought I was the only one having the problem.  I posted about it on multiple tech forums and no one else seemed to respond.

[Lsdmeasap]

They may have been aware by issue reports sent in by other users, or the problem causing the floppy was connected to the SATA issue?

Either was, glad to hear you have resolved this, thanks for the update!