Gigabyte GA-EX58-Extreme Question...

[kikicoco1334]

ok now.. i am back, most of me is back...
but i was trying to get my i7 back up and running, my board is in the title... [GA-EX58-Extreme] it comes with 10 SATA ports, i have 1 x 1TB and 4 x 1.5TBs and a SATA DVD-RW but the prob is i am trying to add some more 1.5s in it..

10 SATA ports, 6 BLUE [all used up] 4 white
but when i hooked up the hdds to the white ports nothing shows up.. what's up with that?
is that RAID only or can i still use it as stander sata ports? that would suck some real ass there..

i been reading this here
http://download.gigabyte.asia/FileList/Manual/motherboard_manual_ga-ex58-extreme_e.pdf
not it's not really helping much

a little help please..

BTW Tigerdirect is got 1.5TB for only 80 ea free shipping!
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4138742&sku=TSD-1500AS

[kikicoco1334]

i found this in it...

10) GSATA2_0/1/2/3 (SATA 3Gb/s Connectors, Controlled by GIGABYTE SATA2/JMB322, White)
The SATA connectors conform to SATA 3Gb/s standard and are compatible with SATA 1.5Gb/s
standard. Each SATA connector supports a single SATA device. The GIGABYTE SATA2/JMB322
controller supports RAID 0, RAID 1 and JBOD. Refer to Chapter 2, "Integrated Peripherals" and
Chapter 5, "Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s)," for instructions on configuring a RAID array.

[Chuchnit]

Yes kiki the white ports are on the crappy jmicron controller. You should be able to use them with a single disk or a couple variety of RAID likes the paragraph posted. You should be fine just using them for storage drives, but don't expect any decent performance coming from those ports.

[FACE]

To get those to show up, make the jmicron controllers are enabled in BIOS. Also, make sure they are in ide or sata mode.... Sometimes they are set to achi/raid by default. :thumbsup:

[kikicoco1334]

enable jmicron in BIOS and make sure it is set to ide or sata, got it!
:thumbsup:
but is that still going to be single HDD ONLY or can it be muti HDD with out RAID?

i am not expect any awesomeness performance coming from those ports, but is that gonna be half wat decent? this is my movie server/oca bench setup.. if i am just dumping 1080p based movies on to it would that be ok? (about 8GB ea)

thanks guys

[Splave]

for sure :)

[kikicoco1334]

for sure :)

for sure what? may i ask?:Dizzy: