Hi all,
Can I connect a SATA III SSD to a SAS port on my ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution motherboard? I can't seem to find a direct answer to this question anywhere.
If it is possible, do I need a specific type of connector cable/adapter to make it work?
The only reason I ask is that I have 7 SATA devices but only 6 intel ports on the board and I really don't want to bottleneck a device by using a PCI-E SATA card (unless I really have to).
My theory is that I have my 2 SSDs (boot drives) linked to the SAS ports 1/2 then have my 4 7200RPM HDDs on the intel ports (they are a RAID 5 volume) and use on of the remaining intel ports for the DVD-RW drive.
Can someone advise on this? I have tried turning the marvell SATA ports on to compatibility mode with boot ROM enabled and the intel ports on all 3 modes (IDE, RAID and AHCI) but the marvell BIOS screen reports no drives found so I am assuming that either the marvell controller doesn't support SATA drives correctly or I need a certain type of cable to connect SATA drives up.
HELP!!! lol
Can I connect a SATA III SSD to a SAS port on my ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution motherboard? I can't seem to find a direct answer to this question anywhere.
If it is possible, do I need a specific type of connector cable/adapter to make it work?
The only reason I ask is that I have 7 SATA devices but only 6 intel ports on the board and I really don't want to bottleneck a device by using a PCI-E SATA card (unless I really have to).
My theory is that I have my 2 SSDs (boot drives) linked to the SAS ports 1/2 then have my 4 7200RPM HDDs on the intel ports (they are a RAID 5 volume) and use on of the remaining intel ports for the DVD-RW drive.
Can someone advise on this? I have tried turning the marvell SATA ports on to compatibility mode with boot ROM enabled and the intel ports on all 3 modes (IDE, RAID and AHCI) but the marvell BIOS screen reports no drives found so I am assuming that either the marvell controller doesn't support SATA drives correctly or I need a certain type of cable to connect SATA drives up.
HELP!!! lol