ASUS P6T WS Pro and SAS Drive

[snt]

Hi,
I have a problem on SAS drives and hope someone can help.
My Asus WS P6T mainboard has onboard marvell 88se6320 RAID controller. i installed 2 SAS drives (IBM 40k1043) but it can only detected 1 drive. port 0 is prefer and if i disconnect port 0, port 1 then can be detected. I tried many ways: low level format, change bios setting... but it does not work. please guide me how to solve the problem.
Thanks, SNT

 

[snt]

No one can help?

SNT

 

[snt]

 

[GhislainG]

Did you contact Asus support? I may be wrong, but shouldn't the SAS drives be used in RAID 0 or RAID 1? Does the procedure described at http://www.legitreviews.com/article/910/1/ work?

 

[snt]

Hi GhilainG,
ASUS support was contacted, their suggestion was to check power, test if the drives is ok... which i've done many times before calling a support.
i've read some procedure like the one in your link, but my problem is BIOS can not detect the 2nd drive.
currently, i install windows 7 on the 1st SAS drive, left the 2nd not connected.
thanks for yur response GhislainG.

 

[GhislainG]

If it can only detect one SAS drive and you already determined that everything else is fine, then you should RMA the motherboard.

 

[snt]

Thanks, GhilainG,

it shall be the laast thing i can do. i'm hopping if i've miss something that make the 2nd SAS not work