On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 2:15 AM, David C. Rankin < drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Aaron, the board is a GA-990FXA-UD3, and I will be making use of SATA > 5/6 (6 drives total), so I'll report back on any difficulties with the last > two drives. My current board (MSI k9n2 SLI platinum) had SATA 1-4 and ESATA > 5-6 on board. While the 990FXA list the SATA 5-6 as full SATA-III ports, I > wouldn't be surprised if they were in some way different from the > primary/secondary controller ports. > > That's the same board that I got last week. I don't remember SATA 5-6 being different from 1-4; where did you see that? When I get back home, I'll double-check my manual and the box, but I don't see anything online suggesting that they're any different. I understood that all 6 SATA ports are SATA revision 3 (I assume that's the same as SATA-III), but I could be mistaken. I would like to believe that 5-6 are different than the others, because it would probably explain my earlier difficulties satisfactorily.
