Marvell 88SE9172 Issue

[falcoln0014]

I recently built a system with a GA-990FXA-UD5. I updated the bios to F7h this morning. Before that I couldn't see any drives hooked to the Marvell ports. Now I can see one of my drives on port GSATA3_6, but the drive on GSATA3_7 isn't showing up in the BIOS and upon boot windows finally told me it had 'installed the marvell controller'. I tried switching the drives around and it doesn't seem to matter. Nothing I've hooked into GSATA3_7 shows up in the bios. Any ideas?

[Dark Mantis]

Bare in mind that this is still a Beta version of the BIOS and as such might still have little problems that need addressing. Make sure that you flash the BIOS with QFlash or FLASHSPI and not @BIOS when you do it as it helps stop errors creaping in.

[falcoln0014]

I flashed it via QFlash. It went from not detecting any drives to detecting a drive on one port. Now it seems to be back to detecting nothing again, so I guess I'll just wait around for a new bios to see if it gets fixed. Doesn't seem to show up in Device Manager either and it is enabled in the bios.

[Dark Mantis]

Do those same drives show up when connected to other ports ?

Have you the latest drivers installed for the Marvell ports ?

What mode do you have the Marvell ports configured to ?

[falcoln0014]

Yes. they work fine on the other on board ports or my PCI Promise controller.

Yes. Latest driver from your site.

I had it set to IDE since all of my drives except for the SDD are SATA 1. Turning it to ACHI doesn't seem to make any difference in drive detection. It does however make the drives spin up and down constantly for some reason. I also had tried it on ACHI mode to format my SDD and windows kept telling me the NTFS partition was invalid. It formatted and installed perfectly fine with the main on board controller which makes me either think the controller is busted, or it needs a firmware update.

[Dark Mantis]

Happy Christmas.

One more thing though, have you tried different cables on the offending ports ?

I would say the same. It does indeed sound as if there is something wrong with the Marvell controller side of the motherboard. If you have all the latest drivers and BIOS and are still getting the same trouble then I think an RMA is in order. Contact your retailer for details of how to return the board to them for repair/replacement.

Good luck and please let us know how you get on.  

[JustAnother]

I had this same problem with BIOS F6 - all 6 + 2 SATA ports were populated with drives, ports set to AHCI. Only the GSATA3_6 drive would show up.

After flashing to BIOS F8, all drives are accessible again.

[Dark Mantis]

Hi

Thanks for the update on your BIOS flash and how it helped with your missing drives. It is always advised to flash the BIOS if there is a newer version available and you are having problems.

[Big Bernie 227]

Hi

Similar issue here. If both hard disk controllers were set to AHCI and both populated, my GA-990FXA-UD7 didn't want to boot.
It originally had BIOS version F3.

By upgrading BIOS to F10, all hard disks including the new 2 x 4TB are now working fine!

Thank you very much!