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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: neurocon on December 09, 2010, 09:34:23 am

Title: GA-X58A-UD3R : Which hd drivers do i need if i'm not going to use RAID ?
Post by: neurocon on December 09, 2010, 09:34:23 am

Which hd drivers do i need for my motherboard if i'm not going to use RAID ?

Title: Re: GA-X58A-UD3R : Which hd drivers do i need if i'm not going to use RAID ?
Post by: Dark Mantis on December 09, 2010, 02:25:03 pm

Hi
Basically all the drivers that are needed are included on your motherboard disk but I would recommend downloading them from the website as a better alternative as they will be more up to date. If you post what revision your board is I will link you to them.

Title: Re: GA-X58A-UD3R : Which hd drivers do i need if i'm not going to use RAID ?
Post by: neurocon on December 09, 2010, 03:15:16 pm

thanks. i wasn't clear enough.
i'm not going to use RAID, should i still install the RAID drivers ?
do i need these : Marvell RAID Utility (SATA3) ? Marvell Console Driver (SATA3) ?

Title: Re: GA-X58A-UD3R : Which hd drivers do i need if i'm not going to use RAID ?
Post by: Dark Mantis on December 09, 2010, 03:26:04 pm

There is no need to install the RAID drivers if you don't intend to use RAID. Also I would suggest disabling it in the BIOS if you are not going to use the ports at all along with the floppy drive etc.

Title: Re: GA-X58A-UD3R : Which hd drivers do i need if i'm not going to use RAID ?
Post by: neurocon on December 09, 2010, 08:29:40 pm

but Marvell Console Driver (SATA3) is the SATA 3 driver, right ? so i have to install that if i use SATA 3 drives ?

Title: Re: GA-X58A-UD3R : Which hd drivers do i need if i'm not going to use RAID ?
Post by: Dark Mantis on December 09, 2010, 09:19:35 pm

I think it is necessary to install that but I am not sure if it is used in all cases such as IDE mode. However it won't hurt to install it anyway.