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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: Graceman on August 28, 2010, 04:34:14 pm

Title: Esata settings and what is best
Post by: Graceman on August 28, 2010, 04:34:14 pm

I have GA-X58A-ud3r board with lots of Esata sockets , yes, I do not know what I am doing.

Which is best to use and why and why does the ide DVD drive show up on  Gsata 8. I have connect with 80 wire ribon cable to IDE socket on board.
In Bios I have disabled al the Sata devices except 8&9 but the single HDD I have is still detected on Sata socket 0

I do not yet have raid and doubt I will yet.

Title: Re: Esata settings and what is best
Post by: Dark Mantis on August 28, 2010, 04:50:27 pm

The best SATA sockets to use are the Intel ICH10 ones. They are the fastest on the board unless you are running SSDs. Your other problem is that it doesn't seem to be a good idea to mix the SATA and PATA devices on the one motherboard even though there are the fascilities for such. I am not speaking from experience here just what I have read in other posts.

Title: Re: Esata settings and what is best
Post by: Graceman on August 28, 2010, 05:12:47 pm

I might buy a PATA to SATA converter then as the existing case is quite neat and tidy, I did this on my other build.
It worked quite well.

Title: Re: Esata settings and what is best
Post by: Dark Mantis on August 28, 2010, 05:13:35 pm

For the small outlay it would be worth trying.