ok. I did a quick google, and if this is an asrock motherboard then the A* ones are on their sata controller (whatever vendor they chose), I avoid all sata controllers that aren't made by Intel, AMD and/or LSI. Any of the other vendors that make only 2/4 port controllers are usually a disaster waiting to happen, so if the A* ones are a ASrock supplied sata controller and not an AMD/Intel or LSI then avoid that one as much as possible. On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 7:42 PM Roger Heflin <rogerheflin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > o > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 3:00 PM Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > There are four SATA data connectors on a new main board. Usually I just > > plug in to them as convenient disregarding the numeric designations. Is > > there a proper order in which to connect two or three drives and what is > > it. Neither the board manual or my google searching have been any help. > > The connectors are labeled: > > > > SATA3 _A1 SATA3_1 SATA3 _A2 SATA3_ 2 > > > > Can someone tell me what order to use them in or if it matters? They are > > labeled so it would seem there certainly must be a reason ... > > * > > order usually matters little. > > Given there are only 4 I would expect them to be connected to the same > sata device, but it could be that there are 2 2 port sata devices and > the labeling denotes which of those 2 port devices they are connected > to. The labeling is rather odd for it being 4 on the same device. > > What is the part number of motherboard? _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
