A8N and Maxtor SATA drive observation

[ahurtt]

I built my system tonight and lucky for me it booted and posted first time. It even saw my Maxtor SATA hard drive (the DiamondMax 10 everybody has been complaining about). I am POSITIVE I hooked my drive up to the set of BLACK SATA controller ports which are supposed to be the nVidia ones according to the manual. Also, according to the manual, I hooked it up to the lower right port the manual and PCB have labeled as port 1 (or SATA 1). Am I correct that this would make it the First SATA Master? Now, I was tweaking the BIOS to my liking and so I went in Advanced -> IDE Function Setup -> and I DISABLED SATA Port 3, 4. Next time I booted to try and install my OS, the drive had disappeared! So I reloaded Setup Defaults. . maybe I changed a couple things again, don't remember. After one or two reboots it was visible again. So I started trying settings one by one to see if I could isolate the particular thing making it disappear. As it turns out, I can reproduce the problem 100% every time by disabling SATA Port 3, 4. If I re-enable the ports 3, 4 then the drive shows up even if I disable Ports 1, 2. Isn't that interesting? And I am looking inside the case right now and I am SURE it is hooked up to the port labeled as 1 on the nVidia SATA controller ports! It's like they labeled them upside down or flipflopped them in the BIOS or something! Can anybody else who is having trouble with Maxtor drives verify this?

 

[ahurtt]

bump. Nobody else has this problem?

 

[ahurtt]

bump. Still nobody else noticing this? I am pretty sure I'm not crazy.

 

[JMag]

Originally posted by: ahurtt
bump. Still nobody else noticing this? I am pretty sure I'm not crazy.

Most crazy people don't know that they are, or are in denial at least

Anyway , I haven't really noticed myself, but I don't care either...

Why does it matter?

If my drive freaking works and boots, i could put it on any of the 4 nvidia ports...

Sounds to me like you might be OCD...

Do you have all you canned food in your cupboards organized alphabetically or in categories?!?!

 

[ahurtt]

By now it is very obvious that this motherboard has problems with detecting certain SATA drives and this could have something to do with the problem. You have to investigate any possibility when dealing with this kind of stuff because something that seems totally unrelated could turn out to be the cause of a problem in an indirect way. I only found this occurrence by accident as I was setting up my machine for the first time and I found it very interesting in light of all the posts I had seen about SATA drive detection issues here. So as to your question, "Why does it matter?". . .I don't know. . .yet. But it could mean something.

Oh, and alphabetically by category. j/k

 

[JMag]

True, I was just giving you a hard time

I will check when I get home if it is the same with me... I do know that my boot drive (which I believe is on SATA1) is never detected as the first device, but thats because the IDE channels are always detected first...