GA-Z68XP-UD4 - eight SATA wont work.

[Morit]

Hello.
I am using 7 SATA drives right now.
First two are in RAID0 and other are normal ones.
Since im running out of space, and I exchanged all the drives to bigger ones I would really like to use that port..
I have my computer for like 2 years and the situation like this was from the beggining -
when I connect 8th disk it will not work.

Is it some common problem? Or maybe it just woks like that becouse of RAID or something?

[shadowsports]

Greetings,
Please provide your board revision.  1.0 or 1.3.  What OS are you running?  Then, please tell us what you have plugged into which SATA port, and which ports you are using for RAID. 

Have you tested the last port on its own (by itself), and can confirm its working.  If a disk is connected to it, does that disk appears in BIOS?

[Morit]

I have 1.0 version, running Windows 7 Ultimate.
All ports are used by hard drives.
RAID1 is on SATA3_0 and SATA3_1, other ones are at SATA2_2, SATA2_3, SATA2_5, SATA2_5 and GSATA3_6.
When I connect eight disk to GSATA3_7 it does not work.
If I diskconnect one from GSATA3_6 and connect it to GSATA3_7 it does works.
It did not show in BIOS.

I was running F3 BIOS version, cant check after uprgrade to latest, becouse I dont have any spare disk right now.

[Morit]

bump

[shadowsports]

Morit,
I don't believe a BIOS upgrade is needed, or will resolve.  Have you confirmed correct BIOS settings for the controllers operate mode?

Obviously RAID, needs to be RAID, but the others should be set as AHCI, not Legacy or IDE.

If the last drive does not appear in BIOS when connected, you will not see it in the OS.

If it does appear in BIOS, please visit Disk Management and see if the disk appears there without Drive Letter assignment.  When you connect a large number of disks, including external drives that "come and go" windows can sometimes run out consecutive drive letters which are typically assigned to disks.  This can be resolved by reassigning drive letters in a meaningful manner (doesn't have to be consecutive) but you sometimes need to assign them manually if windows balks assigning them on its own.  Using letters near the end of the alphabet for internal disks is usually good as this leaves lower letters for automatic assignment to removable drives which windows seems to do better with. 

[Morit]

Morit,
I don't believe a BIOS upgrade is needed, or will resolve.  Have you confirmed correct BIOS settings for the controllers operate mode?

Obviously RAID, needs to be RAID, but the others should be set as AHCI, not Legacy or IDE.

I have the GSATA set to IDE
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4inghh8p2h2cvon/2015-08-23%2010.37.48.jpg?dl=0
so changing those to AHCI should make it work?
Will i not lose any data on the one connected drive?

If the last drive does not appear in BIOS when connected, you will not see it in the OS.

If it does appear in BIOS, please visit Disk Management and see if the disk appears there without Drive Letter assignment.  When you connect a large number of disks, including external drives that "come and go" windows can sometimes run out consecutive drive letters which are typically assigned to disks.  This can be resolved by reassigning drive letters in a meaningful manner (doesn't have to be consecutive) but you sometimes need to assign them manually if windows balks assigning them on its own.  Using letters near the end of the alphabet for internal disks is usually good as this leaves lower letters for automatic assignment to removable drives which windows seems to do better with.

I still have no spare disk, I would prefer to buy it when a probable answer appear, so I did not check it - but I am shure that if the drive would be visible in BIOS I would know that it is not hardware but a software problem and would make it work
So I still stands by the guess that it did not appeard in BIOS when I did it back then.

[Morit]

I changed the BIOS setting and everything works fine - thank you.