Can't get SATA mode 2 on GX58-UD5 mobo

[brucegriffing]

I have three GX58-UD5 mobo's.  On one of them, I am using a Samsung 470 series 256gb ssd.   I am running XP 32 under the IDE settings for the controllers.   The others have other hardware and behave well, but the one in question will only POST into SATA 1 mode.  The LG DVD drive on the machine is also SATA 2 capable, so I cannot understand why it POSTS to  SATA1.   Is there a way to get this set correctly?

[F5BJR]

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That is not a big problem because your DVD cannot saturate the SATA port ( in SATA1 or 2 or 3 mode ) !!

Pierre

[brucegriffing]

The issue is not with the DVD, it is the SSD.   Its performance is about half of what it should be.

[brucegriffing]

OK I fixed it.   The answer does not make sense, but here is what I did.   First, I forced the correct Intel AHCI driver into the existing IDE based WXP installation.  On the blue screen reboot, I set up the Intel SATA controller in AHCI mode.  I had only one drive connected and it was connected to the Intel controller.   Once I ironed that out, I reconnected the BluRay DVD drive.    After everything was working I again ran SSD benchmarks, but they told me that it was running SATA 1 instead of SATA 2.   So no joy yet.  I then moved the BluRay drive to the Jmicron controller.  Still no joy.  Finally, I connected a SATA 2 hard drive to the Intel controller in addition to the Samsung SSD.   I then ran the Intel Rapid Storage utility.  It, like Sandra before it, said that both the SSD and the hard drive were in SATA 2.   This time when I ran the benchmark, in fact they were.  So I don't know if the good result came from running the Intel utility or adding the hard drive, but it now works well and the fast stuff is under AHCI control.

[Dark Mantis]

Well thanks for the explanation of how you managed to fix things. As you say it is not exactly clear what cured the problem but at least it did.