[albarth]

I have some very strange behavior with the Gigabyte SATA-Controller.
The DVD-Burner is not recognized at all, in no port. The 2 Samsung F1 harddisks are only recognized when plugging into channel 0 and channel 1 at the same time. Smart Backup is disabled currently. When entering G-Bios, there's just one disc with 2 TB size (very odd). In IDE mode, no single disc is recognized.

After updating to F7 BIOS, the RAID Control Mode is not available any more. G-Bios is not available also. The two discs are recognized when plugged in in C0 and C1 (as one with Smart Backup enabled now), a single disc is still not recognized. With SB disabled, no disc is detected. Channel 2 and Channel3 seems to be totally dead. I've tried all different Bios settings for this...

The DVD-Burner is also not detected in any SATA channels.

For the Intel Southbridge, all SATA ports are working very fine. But I want to use the G-SATA since I want to build up a 6-disc RAID5 on the Intel controller.

My wish is to have a "safe" raid 0 (perhaps with or without smart backup function) PLUS the DVD-Burner, all three on G-SATA ports. Isn't that possible?

Any help? Any suggestion?