Normal SATA / IDE on Sata Raid Port?

[TCINV]

I'd been having some problems with my power supply and it finally died so I got a new one and that works great. Unfortunately in the process I damaged one of my two normal SATA ports on the motherboard (the plug got stuck and it pulled out/broke some pins).

I have an older ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe motherboard.


I'm currently using two drives -- my primary and then my media drive with music/movies on it. The media drive has no port now that I have damaged the motherboard.

My question is this:

Is there a way to use / configure a SATA raid port as either a normal sata or see if the motherboard will run the sata drives as IDE drives (thus also disabling the raid and treating it as a normal IDE port)?

 

[myocardia]

You'll either need a new motherboard, or one of these.

 

[corkyg]

I had the same problem on one of my P4PE mobos. One of the SATA ports became mechanically unusable. So, I simply disabled the mobo SATA/RAID ports and installed a SATA/RAID PCI card with 4 ports. End of problem - works better because the P4PE BIOS was wierd. You could not have SATA w/o RAID! Even a single SATA drive required it be a RAID 0 array.