Question Can anyone confirm if the Gigabyte a520m s2h has the ability to turn off all SATA ports in bios, without taking the cable out physically?

[dan1991Ro]

I have read 2 conflicting versions of the manual, and I don't understand if it has this ability or not.
It would be a big deal for me, cause I'm trying to replace an old motherboard with this and a newer cpu and I would need this ability. Or at least it would be very nice to have.
Thanks a lot.

 

[Eximo]

Motherboard manual leaves much to be desired. Seems they left off, well, everything but how to open the BIOS and configure for RAID if needed.

Fairly standard feature to be able to disable any of the peripheral devices like onboard storage, audio, network, and usb controllers.

I don't really see the point in having a drive connected while the SATA controller is off though.

 

[dan1991Ro]

Motherboard manual leaves much to be desired. Seems they left off, well, everything but how to open the BIOS and configure for RAID if needed.

Fairly standard feature to be able to disable any of the peripheral devices like onboard storage, audio, network, and usb controllers.

I don't really see the point in having a drive connected while the SATA controller is off though.

I mean, most motherboards don't supply this feature, from MSI I'm pretty sure, even the high end ones. But I know that ASRock is the only one with this basic feature.

 

[Eximo]

You have been unlucky in motherboard choice is the only explanation I can think of. Outside of very restricted OEM boards you can generally enable/disable most onboard features. Not only to free up addressing (the old days), but in case one of them malfunctions.