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Hi There<br />
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I have 5 sata ports on a ASUS M4A79T Deluxe motherboard. &nbsp;1-2 have RAID0 HDD, 3-4 have optical drives, and the 5th is not picking up another HDD in a drive cradle.<br />
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The BIOS instructions seems to indicate that if I need to use 5th port I have to set BIOS to AHCI which I cant do because I have RAID running. &nbsp;I think a BIOS update may provide individually configurable ports but another solution would be a PCI card.<br />
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Can I use a PCI SATA controller card for the hot swap SATA cradle and run it using AHCI? &nbsp;All the controller cards seem to just offer RAID.<br />
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Any advice very welcome
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Hi There

I have 5 sata ports on a ASUS M4A79T Deluxe motherboard.  1-2 have RAID0 HDD, 3-4 have optical drives, and the 5th is not picking up another HDD in a drive cradle.

The BIOS instructions seems to indicate that if I need to use 5th port I have to set BIOS to AHCI which I cant do because I have RAID running.  I think a BIOS update may provide individually configurable ports but another solution would be a PCI card.

Can I use a PCI SATA controller card for the hot swap SATA cradle and run it using AHCI?  All the controller cards seem to just offer RAID.

Any advice very welcome

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