Promise T3 Sata II Ports

Are the two Promise T3 Sata II ports usable for normal sata drives on my K9A2 platinum ?
I am a little confused by the designation in the specs which says:
"2 SATA II (5~6) ports by Promise® T3, support SAS ready devices, for storage devices only"
What does it mean when it says "for storage devices only" ? Perhaps this is just another way of saying for hard drives rather than CD/DVD drives.
If these ports are usable for sata hard drives do I have to do anything in the BIOS or in Windows ( Vista or 7 ) in order to use sata drives off of these ports ?

Hi eldiener again ,yes , you can use them with normal HDD-s (only).
If you need drivers for Windows 7 there is a solution to mod Promise drivers
Take a look here (available via forum FAQ)-> https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=146046.0
For one drive performance is weak ~ 140 megs per second.
I ll thank Bas again for adding this to the forum FAQ.

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    CrystalDiskMark 3.0.2 Shizuku Edition x64 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo
                               Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
    * MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]
               Sequential Read :   835.519 MB/s
              Sequential Write :   172.378 MB/s
             Random Read 512KB :   116.470 MB/s
            Random Write 512KB :    96.834 MB/s
        Random Read 4KB (QD=1) :    18.365 MB/s [  4483.7 IOPS]
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       Random Read 4KB (QD=32) :   148.393 MB/s [ 36228.9 IOPS]
      Random Write 4KB (QD=32) :    34.984 MB/s [  8541.1 IOPS]
      Test : 1000 MB [C: 57.6% (137.0/237.7 GB)] (x5)
      Date : 2013/08/14 9:24:53
        OS : Windows 8 Professional [6.2 Build 9200] (x64)
     

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    (wonkanoby, can you use the force to help me on this one?)
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    MSI 655 Max FISR 6730 (non HT) MoBo
    Antec True 400W
    (2)Western Digital (10,000 rpm) Raptors
    Intel P4 2.66ghz
    MSI TI4800 8XAGP
    Plextor 48/40/48 burner
    MSI 52X CDROM
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    both drives have been tested and work fine.  (ser1) shows the drives seperately in the array.  (ser2) does not show either of the drives.
    I have tried tons of different configurations, cleared CMOS, re-seated everything, disabled/re-enabled SATA in bios, still nothing.
    ???Does anyone have any ideas/tricks to get this (ser2) port working correctly so I can setup both harddrives???
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    I have already had to send back (MRA-NewEgg) this board one time because of a similar problem that I did not spend a lot of time troubleshooting.  I know that a lot of people are having problems and that the SiS 655 sucks! :O  This time I decided to troubleshoot and that it might be something small I was missing.  No such luck.  I do not feel like sending this back and losing another week of use on this workstation unless absolutely necessary.  I do have this same board on a similar system with (2)SATA Seagate 7200 drives and it works great.  I am really losing my respect for MSI though as I have never had a bad motherboard from other companies, and this is 2 in a row for MSI.  I even tried this:
    http://www.msi.com.tw/program/e_service/forum/index.php?threadid=18931&boardid=10&sid=2ffcacaf0448de534331ac97aaa46912
    with no luck.
    Advice:
    If I can't get this working and return, I really do not want to get another 655 board.  I have not read up yet on the (Canterwood 875P Chipset) boards from MSI.  Has there been similar issues / problems with SATA Raid as the 655 has?  Im thinking of just paying the restocking fee with NewEgg and going with an Intel Canterwood board.  Sure, the overclocking is not as good as other manufacturers, but this is a work machine so it won't be OC anyway.  I would rather go with stability.  Any thoughts greatly appreciated.
    Arcteryx-

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