Gigabyte 965p DS3 SATA ports can someon explain them ??

Its got three sets of them and the bios is confuseing as well. I have
nio idea what i have them plugged into but, they seem to be working.

I have 4 SATA drives plugged in at this time.

I would like to raid two drive sin raid 0 soon just to try raid. What
SATA ports would i plug the drives into and what bios settings do i
need to set ??

Thanks for your time.

 

I connected my sata drive to the Gigabyte controller....
Press F6 during setup XP, load drivers from floppy.

gr. John

 

RTFM as they say ;-)

The two GSATA ports are the RAID ones, and the other four are the ICH8
ports.

I have the S3, the only difference as far as I am aware is one has solid
capacitors, and a different sound chip. In my manual one of the chapters in
the appendix covers RAID setup. Page 65.

 

There are two SATA controllers on the motherboard, the Intel ICH8
(Orange connectors, which support four SATA ports) and the Gigabyte SATA
controller, which is made by and which you will also find referred to
as the JMicron controller, and which has 2 ports (purple connectors).

The Intel ICH8 ports are fully supported with no drivers. But they do
not support RAID, and they also don't support AHCI or NCQ (which can
potentially speed up the drive).

The JMicron controller supports both Raid and AHCI and NCQ. It's a
higher performance device (at least potentially), but it requires
drivers, an F6 driver for installation and drivers in Windows. Also
note that there is a DOS driver for it as well, but it's not on the CD
.... you should download this and save it, in case you ever need it.

I don't fully understand the exact meanings & implications of all of the
BIOS settings myself. Perhaps someone else will chime in on that.

 

Thanks all.

If i get arround to raiding ill let you know. I bought a NF7-s 2.0 to
raid and never got arround to it

Maybe this time.

 

I've set up a few systems with RAID and have always been underwhelmed
and disappointed ... saw no real performance gains, and for the added
complexity and risk of data loss if a problem did develop (this was raid
for speed, not raid for redundancy), have come to the conclusion that
it's not worth it.