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Intel DP35DP motherboard and SATA HDD problem

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BenGunn

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I connected four new and unformatted Seagate SATA HDDs to an Intel DP35DP motherboard. The hard drives are recognised in the BIOS and identified as ?non-RAID? volumes. This is fine so far because I do not want to use the RAID facility. The problem is that the SATA drive configuration options are then limited to RAID only. In addition the normal option to select ?legacy? or ?native? operation is not available. It insists on ?native? as a fixed answer.

If I try to select either the IDE or AHCI alternatives I want the previously populated SATA ports suddenly become ?not installed?. I suspect the denial of the "native/legacy" option is connected. Can anyone tell what I am doing wrong?
 
This was solved by the man from Intel. Blindingly simple. Unlike all other BIOS changes the RAID/IDE change only takes effect after the next boot. I was discouraged by the immediate loss of healthy HDDs and didn't want to save an apparent disaster so hadn't moved on. Very good customer service from Intel but if it had been explained in the product documentation I would never have had the problem in the first place.
 
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