Quote Originally Posted by IanB View Post
Quick questions about connecting SATA optical drives on the P5Q series, specifically Pro, if anyone can spare equally quick answers...

I have the idea that if you have the Southbridge (ICH10) SATA connectors set up as RAID or AHCI in the BIOS, that you can't use any of the Southbridge SATA ports for an optical drive, only for HDDs - is this correct? If so, since the extra Silicon Image (Drive Xpert) controller connections don't support ATAPI devices, only HDDs (according to the P5Q Pro manual) are you then restricted to using an IDE optical device if you are using Matrix RAID?
I have and use a SATA optical on the SB which is set as Raid with no problems, can even set it as Boot device. This is on The Deluxe but i don't think that will make a difference.