Why doesn't the 'black' sata pin works? the red one works fine?

vbx · Jun 20, 2009

Connected my SATA DVD drive to the black sata pin on the mobo, but it wont detect the DVD drive?

I have 3 red Red SATA plugs and 2 Black plugs. But the black ones don't work? Do I have to enable it or what?

ASUS P5N7A-VM LGA 775 MOBO.

Assassin48 · Jun 20, 2009

2 black ones are probably for raid

vbx · Jun 20, 2009

Assassin48 said:
2 black ones are probably for raid

Ok that sucks, that means I cant add an extra HD... All 3 red ones are used.

1: WD drive
2: Front Panel ESATA
3: DVD Drive

ShiBDiB · Jun 20, 2009

unplug the esata.. unless u use it

Assassin48 · Jun 20, 2009

ShiBDiB said:
unplug the esata.. unless u use it

I would do that
you have some on the I/O of the mobo anyways
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this is weird because on my am3 boards i have the hdd connected on 2/4 whites ( has 6 blue) and they work just fine

let me check on your mobo's bios real quick

vbx · Jun 20, 2009

Assassin48 said:
2 black ones are probably for raid

Assassin48 said:
I would do that
you have some on the I/O of the mobo anyways
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this is weird because on my am3 boards i have the hdd connected on 2/4 whites ( has 6 blue) and they work just fine

let me check on your mobo's bios real quick

I just checked the manual. It says the black SATA 5 & 6 only suport ACHI and Raid mode only.

Assassin48 · Jun 20, 2009

something like this might work

http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=CBLSFFCF05#

Polaris573 · Jun 20, 2009

vbx said:
I just checked the manual. It says the black SATA 5 & 6 only suport ACHI and Raid mode only.

You should be using AHCI mode anyway so your drives can take advantage of native command queuing. Assuming they support it of course. The DVD drive might not, but if you bought your hard drives in the last few years they should.

boomstik360 · Jun 20, 2009

Polaris573 said:
You should be using AHCI mode anyway so your drives can take advantage of native command queuing. Assuming they support it of course. The DVD drive might not, but if you bought your hard drives in the last few years they should.

This man knows his stuff.

vbx · Jun 20, 2009

Polaris573 said:
You should be using AHCI mode anyway so your drives can take advantage of native command queuing. Assuming they support it of course. The DVD drive might not, but if you bought your hard drives in the last few years they should.

I see. I'll check it out later today. Thanks

Mussels · Jun 20, 2009

the black ports are a different SATA controller. you need to make sure its enabled in the BIOS, and then make sure the drivers are installed for it.

edit: asus website says

Southbridge
5 xSATA 3 Gb/s ports ，1 xExternal SATA
Support RAID 0,1,0+1,5,JBOD
JMicron® JMB368 PATA controller
1 xUltraDMA 133/100 (RED)

I'll see what the manual says.

VBX is correct. Its a weird setup, but at least it will work in AHCI mode with normal hard drives.

vbx · Jun 20, 2009

Mussels said:
the black ports are a different SATA controller. you need to make sure its enabled in the BIOS, and then make sure the drivers are installed for it.

edit: asus website says

Southbridge
5 xSATA 3 Gb/s ports ，1 xExternal SATA
Support RAID 0,1,0+1,5,JBOD
JMicron® JMB368 PATA controller
1 xUltraDMA 133/100 (RED)

I'll see what the manual says.

http://img.techpowerup.org/090620/asus.jpg

VBX is correct. Its a weird setup, but at least it will work in AHCI mode with normal hard drives.

I'm using Win7 32bit and their stupid CD won't run in win7. (not compatible).

I do have vista 64, but my belkin wifi device won't install because the stupid drivers isn't "verified" or something.

I'll look at their site for a driver.

Mussels · Jun 20, 2009

vbx said:
I'm using Win7 32bit and their stupid CD won't run in win7. (not compatible).

I do have vista 64, but my belkin wifi device won't install because the stupid drivers isn't "verified" or something.

I'll look at their site for a driver.

anyone who installs drivers from a CD, needs to wake up. those things are months old when the motherboards are new - and usually years old when you go to use them.

1. AHCI drivers wont install unless your BIOS is set to AHCI mode already
2. vista drivers will work
3. get them from nvidia, they made your chipset and they will be more updated than asus.

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