Recent content by smuckola

Jaquith, in this and several other posts, according to me and several others, you're completely devoted to not making any logical sense whatsoever, and often doing so in a vendetta against Gigabyte. :( Now it's to the point where you're hijacking threads and creating imaginary problems against...

My condolences for those dead motherboards though, Jaquith! I would be mighty distraught, to say the least.

Yeah I agree with Hard Line. I have seen no empirical evidence that the GA-X58A-UD3R or any other Gigabyte motherboard is endemically flawed by design. What I do see is one person repeatedly calling them endemically flawed at the slightest question, and each time citing a shipment of six bad...

You have reminded me to read the manual which I haven't done in a long time. Silly me! Thanks. However, I do know which ports are SATA 2 and which are SATA 3. I asked which ports correspond to different controllers, and what those controllers physically are. I'll check the manual for that...

I have a GA-X58A-UD3R v1 with F6 BIOS and I've had an OCZ Vertex2 90GB SSD boot drive for a week or two with no problems. I have no idea why a motherboard would have a problem with an SSD! Anomie, I got my OCZ Vertex2 90G SSD on a one-day pre-Black-Friday sale for $169.99 and a $20 MIR. So...

Oh yeah and I have the F6 BIOS version. I apologize if I'm being slow on finding these posts! ;-)

I know there was a post somewhere which gives details about the Intel controller, and which mentions the history of the ICH family and the increased maturity of its drivers in comparison to that of the Marvell controller. It talks about the physical separation of the interfaces, some of which I...

Hi guys. Thanks a lot for your replies. Jaquith, I can kind of understand how that could apply to another person's setup, but how about my questions? Do you have any information about which ports are handled by separate controllers? Is there a performance hit on an individual channel if...

The understanding that I've gleaned about the SATA controllers is that ports 0-5 are on one controller, ports 6-7 are on another physical controller if you set it to "IDE" mode which is shared with the legacy IDE ports (or they're the same controller if it's RAID mode), and port 8-9 are on a...

Hi all. I have a GA-X58A-UD3R v1 with F6 BIOS, eight two-terabyte hard drives for a ZFS software RAID, and one SSD for booting MacOS 10.6.5, my only operating system. So I'm wanting to ensure that I selected the optimal BIOS setup for nine drives on ten ports. Here's my setup...