5 SATA Drives on a MSI 7125 MB in Non-RAID

Hello Everyone,
I have been running 4 SATA drives, 3-250 GB Seagates and a Plextor DVD, on my MB for awhile now. I went to install Vista this weekend and added another drive so that I can functioning with XP until Vista is ready to use. My question is how do I enable the SATA ports 5-8? I don't want to run RAID, I just want access to the extra ports. I will be multi-booting and plan on moving one of my non-booting drive the the upper SATA ports so that I can continue to boot to multiple drives including the DVD.
I would prefer not to run the RAID drivers if I can avoid that.
Thank you...

Quote from: charles05663 on 06-February-07, 02:31:05
Thank syar2003...
If I was to mod the bios, where would I find one?
On the ISO cd I have made for 7125 .
The W7125NMM.1D0 has this option unblocked . You don't have to mod anything - just update to that bios version
See:
Topic: Bios Collection. *Updated 01.21.07*
In cmos setup - look under "Integrated Pheriferals" enter the option "OnBoard SIL3114 Mode" and under it change RAID (mode) to SATA (mode)
Save .
Now you can add single disk to port 5-8 SIL ports.
And for drivers you'll need this :
Win2000/XP ,32bits
http://www.siliconimage.com/docs/3114_x86_win32_base_logo_1205.zip
Vista ,32bits
http://www.siliconimage.com/docs/3114_x86_13100_logo.zip
Vista ,64bits
http://www.siliconimage.com/docs/3114_x64_1.2.8.0_logo.zip

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