on my motherboard i have 8 sata ports 4 normal ones and 4 raid sata ports i have a external hd which is usb and esata i have filled my 4 normal sata ports with hds and i just want to use one raid port to use with esata i have disabled the raid controller in the bios but it still wont work is there something i can do to make it act like a normal sata port.
EDIT: i have found out that when you disable the raid controller it disables the the sata ports i hear there is this raid option that is not official (single) JBOD should i use that for the one hd or should i buy a pci Sata Card
Actually, it doesn't matter(from hdd viewpoint) whatever SATA ports are in RAID mode or not. If you connect hdd to port in RAID mode, then hdd will be handled as NON-RAID disk for hdds what are not part of raid-set.
Just be sure you have the right drivers installed for the mode you use.
It gets more messy if you going to boot from hdd. Here you need to match both the mode and drivers. For example, you can't boot Win from regular install, with hdd on port in RAID mode as this install don't have drivers for RAID controller. And the oposite, can't boot Win installed on hdd under RAID controller, with hdd on port in non-RAID mode.
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