ASUS P8Z77-V PREMIUM HDD intel and marvell ports help needed

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I need some advice on this set up

My motherboard ASUS P8Z77-V PREMIUM
Hard Drives
1 x 2TB Barracuda
1 x 128GB OCZ Vector
1 x 256GB OCZ Vector

The motherboard has these sata ports 2 x Intel 6GBPS, 2 x Intel 3GBPS and 4 x Marvell 6GBPS

Ok so I had the 128gb and 2TB Barracuda hooked up to the Intle 6GBPS ports until today.

I got a new 256GB SSD and plan to only use it for steam and games. My other ssd has OS and drivers etc on it.

So I thought the best setup would be putting both the SSD's into the Intel 6gbps ports and changing the Barracuda over to a marvell port.

The barracuda is being used for most of my programs, and storage.

I have this problem, when I boot up after my asus screen I get this screen http://imageshack.us/f/547/08tv.jpg/

Then the computer restarts and boots into windows normally.

All is working except I am getting the safely remove hardware icon for my barracuda now on the taskbar as if it was an external drive. The drive is working fine and programs that are on it are starting fine on boot like my anti virus etc.

What am I missing to stop it acting like an external drive, and how do I remove the annoying marvell boot screen.

I will be getting another 2TB Barracuda in the near future so I had just thought they would both be best plugged into the marvell 6gbps ports. There is no point putting the current barracuda in the one spare intel 3gbps then having to deal with this issue when I get another 2TB drive in a few weeks


I do not currently plan to use raid or ssd caching



So how do I stop it acting like an external drive and get rid of the annoying marvell boot screen
 
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You maybe set up like this: 1) Only connect the 128Gb and 256GB SSD into the intel SATAIII ports. Then cloning the 128GB one into 256GB. 2) After done the cloning, connect the 2TB HDD into the intel SATAII ports ( you have 3X SATAII), it is fine that you add the regular HDD into SATAII because the HDD never never reaches the SATAIII (600MB/s) speed, for your 2TB Barracuda maybe has 200MB/s.

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You mean in the actual marvell bios? or the main mobo bios?

I am not familiar with the marvell bios screen and unsure what to do as do not want to lose my data on it
 


When you enter the main BIOS there should be entries for SATA mode listed separately under the Marvell controller and Intel controllers.

 

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I updated the marvell drivers from asus website, restarted and went into bios, I am set to ahci mode and I do not have seperate options for intel or marvell there.

The only specific options I see in the main bios for Marvell are int he On board Devices Section, here is what they are set too

Marvell controller - Enabled
Marvel Storage Oprom - Enabled
Check/Update - Disbaled

The drive is still acting like an external drive and I am still getting the annoying marvell boot screen

 
You maybe set up like this: 1) Only connect the 128Gb and 256GB SSD into the intel SATAIII ports. Then cloning the 128GB one into 256GB. 2) After done the cloning, connect the 2TB HDD into the intel SATAII ports ( you have 3X SATAII), it is fine that you add the regular HDD into SATAII because the HDD never never reaches the SATAIII (600MB/s) speed, for your 2TB Barracuda maybe has 200MB/s.
 
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