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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: mbdude on March 03, 2010, 10:17:15 pm

Title: GA-790XTA-UD4. E-SATA ready?
Post by: mbdude on March 03, 2010, 10:17:15 pm

I need to know if this mobo have the internal E-SATA connector required to use the E-SATA port available in the front panel of some ATX cases or, on the contrary, the only E-SATA port is at the back panel of the mobo.
In other words, oes it just consist of putting a regular SATA cable from the ATX case to any SATA port in the mobo?
I'm asking because I didn't find E-SATA in the list of internal connectors in the mobo manual, just at the rear panel.

Thanks

Title: Re: GA-790XTA-UD4. E-SATA ready?
Post by: absic on March 04, 2010, 06:46:46 am

Hi there, This board does not have internal e-sata connector(s) just the 2 e-sata connectors on the back.
Hope this helps!

Title: Re: GA-790XTA-UD4. E-SATA ready?
Post by: mbdude on March 04, 2010, 10:46:28 am

is there any other mobo that has it? i can't find none.

Title: Re: GA-790XTA-UD4. E-SATA ready?
Post by: absic on March 04, 2010, 02:18:26 pm

There are a couple but they seem to be for Intel i7 CPU rather than AMD

Title: Re: GA-790XTA-UD4. E-SATA ready?
Post by: mbdude on March 04, 2010, 10:11:14 pm

so then, doesn't it work attaching a regular SATA cable from one of the many SATA ports of the mobo to the ATX case front panel?

Title: Re: GA-790XTA-UD4. E-SATA ready?
Post by: absic on March 05, 2010, 07:00:14 am

Not tried it myself but if you set bios to AHCI mode when you first set-up it should be OK. However you will need to make sure your HDD,  attached to the e-sata port, is powered up before you boot as there is sometimes an issue with e-sata not recognising disks that are plugged in once the system is up and running.