GA-P35C-DS3R SATA help

[jasonwf]

I recently put together a machine with this board:

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813128048

Right now I have my HDD plugged into the SATA2 (purple) port on the board. I figured it didn't matter and everything works fine, it's just Vista is recognizing it as this:

SATA ST35006 SCSI Disk Device

It is also set to slave in my bios while my DVD drive is set to master.

The problem I'm having is when I try to run the software (Seatools, Discwizard) that came with the drive it says I don't have a Seagate drive installed.

Does any of this matter? Should I put the drive on a regular SATA port, change the HDD as master? Is the software quirk just a Vista thing?

Sorry if this is a lame question, but this is my first build.

thanks!

 

[jive]

I recently put together a machine with this board:

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813128048

Right now I have my HDD plugged into the SATA2 (purple) port on the board. I figured it didn't matter and everything works fine, it's just Vista is recognizing it as this:

SATA ST35006 SCSI Disk Device

It is also set to slave in my bios while my DVD drive is set to master.

The problem I'm having is when I try to run the software (Seatools, Discwizard) that came with the drive it says I don't have a Seagate drive installed.

Does any of this matter? Should I put the drive on a regular SATA port, change the HDD as master? Is the software quirk just a Vista thing?

Sorry if this is a lame question, but this is my first build.

thanks!

Hi, I have the same board and the purple sata caonnection is for an raid storage something... Used the yellow one. I have the same problem and switching to the other one everything works fine after that. I have 4 disks and 2 sata dvd burner and all works great.

 

[jasonwf]

awesome, thanks. I'll try switching over to the orange ports. What about the master/slave thing. Does that matter at all?

 

[rockyjohn]

SATA does not have masters and slaves as there is only one drive per channel. I expect when you change the HD to the first SATA port this issue will disappear.

 

[jasonwf]

thanks, will do.