Can only use 7 out of 8 sata ports.

edgeria

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Feb 20, 2012
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ASUS Maximus IV Extreme-Z LGA 1155 Intel Z68

I can only use 6 out of the 7 sata ports. I am running 2 ssd's in raid-o and then I have 2 - 1.5tb, 1 - 500gb, 1 -320gb, and 1 blu-ray drive, now I just had to disconnect the sata on the blu-ray drive for windows 8 to see the 320gb. but as soon as I restart it will see the blu-ray and not the 320gb. Any ideas? I am ordering two 4tb drives next week (deleting the 320, I was bored so I started messing with it today) and I am just trying to figure this out because I want to be able to utilize all 8 sata ports.
 

Tradesman1

Legenda in Aeternum
Couple of thoughts, 1 is I believe you have an E-SATA port on the back panel - if that's enabled then it might be taking out a onboard port, and also think there are three separate SATA controllers the Intel, the Marvel and a third which I believe is a JMicron - sort of a piece of crap controller - may check for a driver on that