Enable AHCI on all SATA controllers - Possible? on GA-X58A-UD5 Rev 2

**aalokep** · 01-26-2013

This is on a GA-X58A-UD5Rev 2 board with X58A-UD5 FE Bios with AHCI enabled.

The drive has room for 10 SATA drives, as seen in the motherboard layout (From the manual pg 7).
SATA2_0 .. SATA2_5 are on Intel Southbridge, GSATA3_6, GSATA3_7 are on Marvell 9128, and GSATA2_8, GSATA2_9 are on Gigabyte SATA controllers.

The BIOS has a place to enable AHCI for the ICH SATA controller (see attached screenshot). Does that enable AHCI only on the Southbridge?

How do I enable AHCI on the other SATA controllers (Marvell and Gigabyte)?

Thanks.
Aloke

**wazza300** · 01-26-2013

pretty sure theres another setting for the marvell ports and you can also set it to ahci mode so yes all ports support ahci

**steveherdt** · 01-26-2013

You need to go to the bottom of the page. You are only looking at page one of that BIOS screen. The Marvell (6Gb/s) and Gigabyte (3Gb/s) controllers are on the second page. See scroll bar on the right side of the page. And yes you can set each controllers mode separately. Good Luck!

**aalokep** · 01-28-2013

Thanks!! I was being dumb.

Aloke
PS: FWIW, Acronis True Image 2013 boot disk is having problems detecting drives connected to Marvell or Gigabyte controllers. I am using all my drives to the Intel Southbridge ports.