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 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 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 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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