Help avoiding sandy bridge probs on asus p8p67

[nomorenails]

Hi everyone,

I was hoping for a bit of help in avoiding the problems with the sandybridge chipsets, apologies if this has been asked before but i didn't find anything which explained it in small enough words fo me!

I have an asus p8p67 mb, and currently 4 devices plugged into the SATA ports: a CD drive, a SSD (with the OS), a normal hard drive and an eSATA port (which i'll rarely, if ever use)

I was wondering is there any way to have these all plugged into the 4 x 6 GB/sec ports, as I understand that these have no problems, is that right? I read somewhere that you can't have certain stuff on the 2 Marvell ports but haven't been able to find out exactly what.

Any help would be appreciated!

Cheers

 

[Krislord]

Marvell supports hard drives only, not CD drives.

I would do this:

SSD Intel 6gbps
hard drive intel 6gbps
CD drive intel 3gbps
SATA intel 3gbps

The intel ports are unlikely to fail in most cases and even if they do it's not going to kill whatever is connected to it. This way you can disable the marvell chip completely.

 

[nomorenails]

Thanks for the reply. That's how my drives are set up at the moment.
Is there any reason I can't put my hard drives onto the marvell ports and the CD/eSATA onto the 6Gb intel ones? You make it sound like putting things onto the Marvell chip should be avoided.