anyone have an ASUS mobo that can answer this?

[dbarton]

I have a p5q pro

I see Marvell drivers listed in the manual. Is that for the OTHER sata controller? When I google them I think they seem to be Raid drivers for the "drive expert" function on sata e1 and e0, but sometimes the manual calls them PATA drivers. Confusing.

What ports are these Marvell drivers actually for?

 

[BoboKatt]

In the specs you see this for your board:
Marvell 88SE6111
- 1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 for up to 2 PATA devices

That cd is for your IDE controller (one controller, can handle two devices etc). Note that they call they are referring to the "IDE" as PATA because:

IDE refers to the type of interface for the drive. ATA either serial or parallel, refers to the method of transferring data along the cable. In this case PATA & IDE are the same thing.

You don't need that, at least I certainly never even bothered since Vista took care of that. Mind you most of us all have SATA. You can disable the IDE controller in your BIOS if you dont use it.

 

[dbarton]

I am gonna boot from a DVD on PATA/IDE to install windows, and will use a secondary drive there. (XP, by the way)

The confusing thing is that on on p4.2 of the manual it says " Marvell 61xx Sata RAID controllor driver, installs the marvell 61xx sata raid controller driver".
The specs says it's a PATA controller, which makes sense, but then there's a raid driver for it??? Huh?

Why even have a driver for a PATA port, that we are able to natively boot from, (so doesn't need a driver).

 

[n7]

White & orange SATA ports on your board are Silicon Image according to Asus specs.
Marvell does IDE & other ports.

 

[dbarton]

That what confuses me! - what other ports does Marvell do that I have a driver for it, and why does the Asus mobo manual call it a a 61xx sata raid controller, when the orange and white are silicon image, and the reds are all Intel??!!

Even Asus tech support doesn't seem to have an answer so far.