**Official ABIT IP-35 Pro Review/Overclock/Guide Thread**

[vailr]

sata optical drive should be able to boot when you set the bios to run in Raid off the Intel chipset...just make sure you have the DVD drive plugged into sata port 5 or 6...if you have it in 1-4, it will not boot from there.

Unless I am mistaken, SATA ports 5&6 are under control of the JMicron controller chip (which I do not use and normally have disabled). I've already tried enabling the JMicron controller (in IDE mode) and seeing whether the SATA DVD-RW would boot from port 5, which didn't work either.

[Nervous]

Unless I am mistaken, SATA ports 5&6 are under control of the JMicron controller chip (which I do not use and normally have disabled). I've already tried enabling the JMicron controller (in IDE mode) and seeing whether the SATA DVD-RW would boot from port 5, which didn't work either.

You are mistaken. JMicron is used for E-SATA.

[vailr]

You are mistaken. JMicron is used for E-SATA.

Ok, you're correct. The JMicron is used for the 40-pin IDE connector and for eSATA. However, the SATA DVD-RW still won't boot from any of the 6 Intel (internal) SATA ports, when the bios is set to Raid mode. I'd like confirmation that anyone else is running into the same problem. Or if using an older IDE DVD-RW on the IDE port would allow booting from an optical disc, while the bios is set to Raid mode?