And when running (under WinXP and Win7) the option "install the sata drivers" from the dvd that is shipped with the motheboard, BOTH sata drives are now correctly detected and readable. So that it seems that the vanilla installers of WinXP and Win7 actually install a driver (since one drive is detected and readable) as with Linux installers, but do not configure it correctly, since only ONE drive is detected, not TWO. What makes me believe it is just a bad config of a linux driver is that, with fresh installs of Windows XP and Windows 7, the problem is the same : ONLY ONE sata drive is recognized also, as with Linux installs.
This is why I tested so much distros, hoping some would have found the correct configuration. So my problem does not come from not loading the sata driver, but probably from a bad configuration of it.
So loading the pata driver is necessary in my case and cannot be deactivated as proposed, otherwise the ide drives would not be seen.įurthermore, as concerns the sata driver, it seems to be loaded correctly in my case, since I have ONE sata drive detected (on a total of two) - while, in the case you cite, the problem is that NO sata drive at all is detected. This is not a solution in my case, because it's a different motherboard : my motherboard can monitor BOTH sata and ide drives - and the marvell controller must monitor sata AND ide drives as I have both. Therefore, sata drives are not seen, and the solution proposed by the author (deactivating the pata driver) seems to be the solution. The page you pointed to deals with a different problem : it deals with a motherboard that has only connection for sata drives and NO pata/ide drive and the author suggests that the sata driver is not loaded because pata_marvell is loaded erroneously and prevents the sata driver to be loaded. Would anybody have a solution? Thanks a lot. I didn't find any driver for Linux either on the Marvell website. Unfortunately for Linux, there is only audio driver on Asus website, no driver for Marvell 6121 controller that would improve pata_marvell driver. With a fresh Windows 7 install, the same problem arises (one sata drive not detected) but it disappears as soon as the driver for Win7 is downloaded from Asus's site and installed. With WinXP and Win7 however, all drives are correctly detected after installing the proper driver. The other sata controller for the 6 other sata drives works well. I installed Linux Mint 16 Cinnamon 64b on it.Įverything works OK, except for one sata drive that is not detected, among the two sata drives that are connected to the ide / sata controller Marvell 6121. I have one IDE hard drive, one IDE dvd-drive and 8 sata drives. ↳ The Rules and Forum Information.I have a PC with mainboard Asus P5Q-E and 3Mb RAM.If possible, what would be the recommended install order and methods/drivers for making this work correctly?Ĭould I use Marvell for 4 drive RAID5 and use Intel RAID for OS, DVDR, and external eSATA? What do you guys think? Is this going to be a nightmare due to the unstable nature of the Marvell controller? Or has the latest BIOS revision addressed enough of the problems? I need an external drive & wanted to use eSATA for speed rather than USB2. I need RAID5 on 4 drives for redundancy for important personal data.
I want to set it up as follows:Ĥ x 500 GB Samsung (HD501LJ) HDDs in RAID5 for data.ġ x 500 GB Samsung (HD501LJ) HDD for OS (Windows XP Pro SP2).ġ x 500 GB Samsung (HD501LJ) HDD on red eSATA to external AMS enclosure I have this Intel board (D975XBX2) and I have flashed the BIOS to the latest (86A 2809 released ). I just found the forum & it was a noob mistake. Sorry I added the post to the root of the Intel MB forum.