Asus Maximus Formula & JMicron Controller

Rudeboy

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Does anyone know if the JMicron controller controls SATA and PATA ports on the Maximus Formula board?

Or is the JMicron just for PATA only and the SATA ports are controlled by the Intel controller?

The manual and the JMicron BIOS screen seem to contradict each other. The manual just mentions PATA, but the BIOS screen lists PATA/SATA.

Assuming I don't use PATA can I just disable the JMicron controller and use standard Intel SATA drivers or do I need to use the JMicron SATA drivers from the Asus webpage?

Everything has been working fine for months, but I now want to use hot-swap esata and it would never work in RAID mode for some reason, so I've decided to go back to just running AHCI so I can use my esata drive when I need to without rebooting. Installing Vista and SP1 went fine, but since installing the Intel Chipset drivers the system now won't boot and the BIOS shows invalid boot device. I've manually tried booting from all drives and it makes no difference. Just wondered if I should have been using the JMicron controller and JMicron drivers rather than the Intel ones I installed.

Very confused :(
 
My P5E is a cut down version of your board (actually says Maximus Formula under the P5E sticker) and as far as i can tell the JMicron controller is for the IDE slots. I only have Sata drives and have the Jmicron controller disabled in the bios with no problems. In the power menu there is a option for APCI 2.0 support. By default it is set to disabled but my board will not detect the drives unless it's set to Enabled.
 
pastymuncher said:
My P5E is a cut down version of your board (actually says Maximus Formula under the P5E sticker) and as far as i can tell the JMicron controller is for the IDE slots. I only have Sata drives and have the Jmicron controller disabled in the bios with no problems. In the power menu there is a option for APCI 2.0 support. By default it is set to disabled but my board will not detect the drives unless it's set to Enabled.
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Thanks, I'll give it a go later.
 
hmm, reinstalled completely in AHCI mode, put the latest Intel drivers on and still can't hotswap my esata drive caddy. Every time I plug it in, the Intel Matrix Storage Manager see's the disk, but then the system locks up and becomes unusable.

Has anyone successfully managed to hotswap a sata device on a Maximus formula?
 
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