I just installed an Asus M3N78-VM GeForce 8200 motherboard in the course of a system upgrade. Everything is running well.
There are 5 SATA ports on the mobo, 3 of which (SATA 1, SATA 2, SATA3) are already being used by 3 hard drives (non-RAID)
There are 2 open SATA ports left and they are black instead of red (SATA 4, SATA 5). The motherboard manual says: "Due to chipset limitation, SATA 4 and SATA 5 do not support IDE mode, only support AHCI+RAID mode"
Does this mean that I can't use SATA 4 or SATA 5 to connect a SATA optical drive?
Does this mean that I can only use SATA 4 and SATA 5 if I configure my system for RAID?
Why do they say AHCI+RAID instead of RAID?
I still have an IDE DVD burner, and it's connected to the one IDE connector on the mobo. So for now, I'm good. Just wondering if I have the possibility of adding a SATA optical drive. I'm not interested in RAID.
There are 5 SATA ports on the mobo, 3 of which (SATA 1, SATA 2, SATA3) are already being used by 3 hard drives (non-RAID)
There are 2 open SATA ports left and they are black instead of red (SATA 4, SATA 5). The motherboard manual says: "Due to chipset limitation, SATA 4 and SATA 5 do not support IDE mode, only support AHCI+RAID mode"
Does this mean that I can't use SATA 4 or SATA 5 to connect a SATA optical drive?
Does this mean that I can only use SATA 4 and SATA 5 if I configure my system for RAID?
Why do they say AHCI+RAID instead of RAID?
I still have an IDE DVD burner, and it's connected to the one IDE connector on the mobo. So for now, I'm good. Just wondering if I have the possibility of adding a SATA optical drive. I'm not interested in RAID.