- Jul 23, 2013
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I installed the Extreme6 mobo in a Thermaltake GT case, which has several swap-out bays. I therefore was in a position to move hard drives about.
I have SATA data cables connected to all ports on the Extreme6 except the eSATA, and there is no M2 memory on board. On bootup in the UEFI, in the Storage Configuration, SATA3 ports 0,1,2,3,4,5 are all appropriately detected or not detected (i.e., detected if attached to a drive, not detected if no drive attached). For example, my Samsung Evo SSD is on 0, my Asus ODD is on 1, my second SSD is on 3, and 2 and 5 are empty. In the UEFI when I click on the 'Not Detected' for ports 2 and 5, choices appear to select whether it should have an external SATA or not, and another choice for whether it's HDD or SSD. Similar choices appear when I select the other ports which do have drives attached.
However, if I select ports SATA3_A1 through A4 where it also says 'Not Detected', no such choices appear. In fact, nothing appears except the option to return to the prior page. Not surprisingly, these ports are 'dead', and I cannot access them when I connect a hard drive.
What is different about the ports A1 through A4, and why won't they work when all the other ports do work? Why weren't they labeled 6,7,8,9? Is it because there's something different about them and they aren't supposed to work? Which would be pretty crappy considering the board is advertised to handle 10 SATA drives.
In case anyone asks this irrelevant information, just to get it out of the way:
Intel 4790k CPU
16gb RAM Corsair
Windows 7 x64 home premium
Rosewill 850W CPU
Sapphire Radeon 280X 3gb
Two Samsung EVO SSDs 1 tb each
One Seagate 2tb HDD
I have SATA data cables connected to all ports on the Extreme6 except the eSATA, and there is no M2 memory on board. On bootup in the UEFI, in the Storage Configuration, SATA3 ports 0,1,2,3,4,5 are all appropriately detected or not detected (i.e., detected if attached to a drive, not detected if no drive attached). For example, my Samsung Evo SSD is on 0, my Asus ODD is on 1, my second SSD is on 3, and 2 and 5 are empty. In the UEFI when I click on the 'Not Detected' for ports 2 and 5, choices appear to select whether it should have an external SATA or not, and another choice for whether it's HDD or SSD. Similar choices appear when I select the other ports which do have drives attached.
However, if I select ports SATA3_A1 through A4 where it also says 'Not Detected', no such choices appear. In fact, nothing appears except the option to return to the prior page. Not surprisingly, these ports are 'dead', and I cannot access them when I connect a hard drive.
What is different about the ports A1 through A4, and why won't they work when all the other ports do work? Why weren't they labeled 6,7,8,9? Is it because there's something different about them and they aren't supposed to work? Which would be pretty crappy considering the board is advertised to handle 10 SATA drives.
In case anyone asks this irrelevant information, just to get it out of the way:
Intel 4790k CPU
16gb RAM Corsair
Windows 7 x64 home premium
Rosewill 850W CPU
Sapphire Radeon 280X 3gb
Two Samsung EVO SSDs 1 tb each
One Seagate 2tb HDD
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