marrow

Alright gents,

I started a thread in AMD CPU's because I thought my 6k+ had corked out under pressure. Details here:

http://www.overclock.net/amd-cpus/37...p-failure.html

However things have turned a bit strange. PC will definitely not boot when HDD is connected to any of the usual SATA ports. I only just thought of connecting it to GSATA port and the system springs to life like nothing happened.

I know that GSATA is controlled by a Gigabyte SATAII JMicron controller but it seems obvious to me that all SATA connections ultimately terminate in the southbridge anyway so I can't get my head around it. Could you be so kind and explain what the difference is between SATA and GSATA (apart from the obvious RAID0 and JMicron GB controller) and why GSATA set works fine whereas the full set of 4 SATA causes interference? Thanks in advance, marrow

Melcar

Make sure your SATA connections are in "Native IDE" mode in your BIOS.

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marrow

Thanks, I have already tried the desperate move of changing SATA mode to AHCI even though SB600 doesn't support it. Now check this - GSATA runs perfectly fine in AHCI 1.1. I am almost definitely convinced that GSATA terminates in the SB600 so I can't really understand how this works.

Any suggestions are really welcome, I'm slowly starting to pull my hair out...

Melcar

It needs to be in either Native or Legacy IDE mode since the SB does not work well with AHCI. Setting it to RAID mode should work too. Also, make sure you can see your drive in the BIOS (to make sure it's being detected).

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