Question SATA ports 4+5 not working.

[AlexS]

Hi

This is another motherboard question.

I have just one SSD 970 PRO NVMe M.2 plugged into my Gigabyte Designare Z390 motherboard.

SATA ports 4&5 don't work for a normal HDD. I thought the NVMe shared the bus, regardless only one NVMe is plugged in.

Anybody have experience with this situation on this motherboard? Is this normal?

Appreciated!

 

[Barty1884]

Totally normal.

Refer page #29 of the English manual here:
https://www.gigabyte.com/ca/Motherboard/Z390-DESIGNARE-rev-10/support#support-manual

If you needed the additional SATA ports to be active, you could use slot M2P (opposed to M2M), although you still lose one port.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Read user manual of your motherboard (page 29).
Using M.2 drive in M2M slot disables sata ports SATA3_4 and SATA3_5.

https://download.gigabyte.com/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_z390-designare_1001_190219_e.pdf

 

[AlexS]

Thx.

I guess I need to buy a new SATA card for extra drives 🙁
If anybody has any good recommendations please let me know.