While I've pulled my new Z68-UD3H-B3 board until some problems discussed in another thread are worked out, I am also confused about SSD/HDD configuation with this board, i.e., what to plug in where. I've got a list of drives below. I found my old Gigabyte board, a 790X-UD4P, to be pretty fickle about exactly where drives should get connected and the new one seems no different, but I don't understand the logic of it.
The Z68 board - GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Socket 1155 - GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 (rev. 1.3) - seems to work best when the SSD and 3T are in the Marvell chip's GSATA3 headers, with the SSD in the 0 position. If the SSD is in the GSATA3-1 position, it won't work right (on my 790X board the order is reversed - the SSD has to go in GSATA2-1 or it won't boot correctly). Doing it that way allows setting those the GSATA3 ports to ACHI, without interfering with the other drives (IDE in BIOS). When I tried the Z68 SATA3's headers with anything, however, it didn't always go well, if at all. Plus, I don't see any way to set those to ACHI independent of the SATA2 ports. With the SSD/3T in the Marvell headers, however, neither drive is then is seen by XP in Windows Explorer, only in BIOS. Other configurations I tried lose one or another of the drives in BIOS, if not in booting. Pretty confusing.
So, is there a logic to all this? Any suggestions about the best way to hook up my drives when I try again? Thanks,
Corsair Force 3 SSD - 60gb - Win 7/64 SSD
Seagate 3T - 6 gb/s -
Seagate 1T - SATA II - one partition has XP/32
Western Digital 750 gb - SATA II
Samsung DVD R/W - SATA
The Z68 board - GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Socket 1155 - GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 (rev. 1.3) - seems to work best when the SSD and 3T are in the Marvell chip's GSATA3 headers, with the SSD in the 0 position. If the SSD is in the GSATA3-1 position, it won't work right (on my 790X board the order is reversed - the SSD has to go in GSATA2-1 or it won't boot correctly). Doing it that way allows setting those the GSATA3 ports to ACHI, without interfering with the other drives (IDE in BIOS). When I tried the Z68 SATA3's headers with anything, however, it didn't always go well, if at all. Plus, I don't see any way to set those to ACHI independent of the SATA2 ports. With the SSD/3T in the Marvell headers, however, neither drive is then is seen by XP in Windows Explorer, only in BIOS. Other configurations I tried lose one or another of the drives in BIOS, if not in booting. Pretty confusing.
So, is there a logic to all this? Any suggestions about the best way to hook up my drives when I try again? Thanks,
Corsair Force 3 SSD - 60gb - Win 7/64 SSD
Seagate 3T - 6 gb/s -
Seagate 1T - SATA II - one partition has XP/32
Western Digital 750 gb - SATA II
Samsung DVD R/W - SATA
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