Sata priorities

[rodo]

Hi, on my board which was installed recently I have been having several hundred atapi errors. I now think I've solved it by arranging my sata connections to:

Sata 0: HDD
Sata 1: Empty
Sata 2: Pioneer DVD RW
sata 3: Empty (obscured by GPU cooler)

Now it looks now that the cables aren't next to each other the atapi errors have stopped.

My question is, is there any rule of thumb for positioning sata cables in their ports in relation to one another?

 

[Big.Wayne]

Hmmm not that I'm aware of, sometimes the sata port numbers and positition make no sense i.e in a row 1-4 but actually they are sata 1,3,2,4 or similar check your manual.

By default most moterboard BIOS arrange the boot order by SATA port number, you normally put your boot drive on the lowest sata port number i.e boot drive to SATA 1, data drive to SATA 2, lop the SATA optical at the end of the chain (so SATA 4, 6 depends how many ports you have).

It is possible to jiggle the drive order in BIOS if needs be but I never really needed to do this myself by arranging the disk order correcty to start.

Also on some boards the ports are colour coded, on the ASUS boards I use there are Red ports and Black ports, the manual says to connect boot devices to the red ports and non boot devices (hmm Optical?) to the black, dunno why that is?

 

[rodo]

Interesting. My end sata is blocked by my 4870 but putting the optical in 2 and the HDD in 0 seems to have solved it it seems.