X99S SLI PLUS - HDs in SATA5 and SATA6 dont show

Hi
I just bought a new motherboard for a work pc.
I wanna do 6 disk raid 10 in SATA port 1-6. Bios detects disk 1-4 but not 5-6.
Identical disk, identical cables, identical everything. If I move them to port 7-8 they show, but these ports dont support raid.
I dont have anything in the M2 slot.
What am I doing wrong?

Quote from: stenergut on 27-September-14, 04:43:53
Hi
I just bought a new motherboard for a work pc.
I wanna do 6 disk raid 10 in SATA port 1-6. Bios detects disk 1-4 but not 5-6.
Identical disk, identical cables, identical everything. If I move them to port 7-8 they show, but these ports dont support raid.
I dont have anything in the M2 slot.
What am I doing wrong?
Same problem as the OP. Bought this board with the intention to run RAID using 6 SSD's using ports 1-6 like documented. Once you create the raid array it drops port 6 (0.5 in the bios) Port 5 stays up for me so thats the only difference. Loading windows 8.1 and installing the latest Intel RST shows even stranger issues. Port 5 will be empty and it will show a missing disk in the RAID view with a serial number that is missing the first three digits and it puts a ":0" at the end of the serial number!
"Set M.2 PCH Strap to [M.2 PCIE]
That should force the M.2 port to use two PCI-E lanes.
See if SATA5 and SATA6 become available."
The above was suggested but if you change m.2 PCH strap to PCIE then you loose both ports 5-6. You don't get the ability to use them.
As it stands I do not see any way this motherboard can support more than 4 hard drives in a RAID setup.

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