Z77A-GD65 Asmedia error with Intel set to RAID

I've had my boot drive and an SSD on the two Intel SATA 3 ports, for RST. The controller was set to RAID mode (as it has to be), the discs were listed as non-RAID when it booted, and the cache was working fine.
I just bought a new drive, plugged it in, and found when anything is connected to the Asmedia ports (in either ACHI or IDE mode) when it boots, it gives the "A disk read error occurred, press CAD to restart" message. Strangely enough, I found that if I powered the drive up after I was in Windows, it would recognize properly and work fine - but that's not what I'm looking for.
So far the only way I've been able to get the machine to boot with the drive connected was to turn off RST/switch the Intel controller back to AHCI.
If anyone knows a way to work around this so I can get both to work at the same time, I could use the help.

That's what I did - the boot drive and the cache ssd were always on sata 1 and 2 (which I'm pretty sure is required for RST to work anyway) and my optical drive is on 3; I plugged the new drive in 7 on the Asmedia controller so I could get the full sata3 benefit.
I would assume that anyone trying to use any form of hardware raid on the Intel controller would run in to the same problem (without drives on the secondary controller in the raid, obviously), but I can't find any specific reference to that anywhere.
Also the same thing happens on the official 10.7 bios release that just came out, which I tried as well.

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Other case is that mainboard have offsets but Vcore is not going down in idle if you do not have enable at once C1E and EIST. Should it work only with EIST option ?
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--> http://download1.msi.com/files/downloads/mnu_exe/E7751v2.2.zip
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