jimj Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 Okay, as far as I can tell the only non-working hardware on my 10.5.1/pc_efi/GUID setup are the second 4 SATA ports. Has anyone been able to see all 8 SATA ports of the Bad Axe 2 under Leopard? The ports and attached disks were visible under Tiger... Thanks -Jim Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75269-bad-axe-2-only-sees-4-sata-ports-under-leopard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimj Posted December 10, 2007 Author Share Posted December 10, 2007 Hmm... following up my own question... It appears the second 4 ports require a special Marvell 66XXX SATA RAID controller driver, and as far as I can tell this only exists for Windows. -JimJ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75269-bad-axe-2-only-sees-4-sata-ports-under-leopard/#findComment-534088 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimj Posted December 11, 2007 Author Share Posted December 11, 2007 Further research reveals: 1) The Bad Axe motherboard originally shipped with a silicon image SATA controller that was supported... 2) The Bad Axe 2 motherboard currently ships with the Marvell 88SE6145 SATA controller that is not supported. This may account for the people that claim all 8 ports work; a search will yield several other threads with people asking for help with the 88SE6145 chipset and no one claiming success. Oh well; I give up! I'll but a PATA DVD burner and get all four of my disks on the ICH7 SATA ports that do work... -jimj Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75269-bad-axe-2-only-sees-4-sata-ports-under-leopard/#findComment-534621 Share on other sites More sharing options...
decayinjack Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 My BX2 board has all 8 ports recognized. You've got to set SATA in the BIOS to AHCI. Then you should see all 8 ports listed. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75269-bad-axe-2-only-sees-4-sata-ports-under-leopard/#findComment-534790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimj Posted December 12, 2007 Author Share Posted December 12, 2007 I have already tried that... the drives on the Marvell ports are not visible when the SATA controller is configured as AHCI. I have also tried temporarily plugging the drives into the ICH7 ports and formatting/partitioning them prior to moving them back to the Marvell ports as suggested in another thread. I am running the latest version of the Bad Axe 2 BIOS too... And the drives do show up in the Marvell BIOS boot messages, so I know that the Marvell ports are not defective. -JimJ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75269-bad-axe-2-only-sees-4-sata-ports-under-leopard/#findComment-535741 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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