frankiee Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 Hi there, so I am preparing my boot setup and have a question with booting several OS on separate drives. I will be using either the R4E or one of the WS boards from Asus. So, especially when I want to have an emergeny partition I am under the impression that it would be better to install OS X and windows 7 on two separate drives. Now, with doing this I would need three SATA III ports (additional data SSD, but no RAID). But of course with the X79 chipset I only have two "native" Intel SATA III ports. Since the windows installation is not that important for me, the plan is to attach both OS X and Data SSDs to the (more performant and reliable?) intel port, and boot Windows from a "non native" SATA III port. (ASMedia or Marvel Controller, depending on the selected board) Now the question: would this setup cause any problems, with one bootable SSD hooked to the secondary controller? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/293216-question-about-dual-booting-and-secondary-sata-controller/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.14r2 Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 It is possible that OS X will not be able to "see" the Windows HDD (or any other HDD/ODD attached to the non Intel controller), since the non Intel controller may have no support in OS X (no drivers). Sure it depends on the exact controller model used in the board... IMO Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/293216-question-about-dual-booting-and-secondary-sata-controller/#findComment-1959377 Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankiee Posted October 27, 2013 Author Share Posted October 27, 2013 It is possible that OS X will not be able to "see" the Windows HDD (or any other HDD/ODD attached to the non Intel controller), since the non Intel controller may have no support in OS X (no drivers). Sure it depends on the exact controller model used in the board... Oh, thanks for the heads up - this would be quite important, since the Windows drive will also double as a paralells VM. The boards I mentioned have the following 3rd party controllers: R4E: ASMedia WS-E: Marvel 9230 and ASMedia WS: Marvel 9128 Will these all work in OS X? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/293216-question-about-dual-booting-and-secondary-sata-controller/#findComment-1959388 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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