How do I disable a Marvell Controller?

bobkn said:

The board has an Intel 975X chipset, plus a Marvell 88SE61XX secondary SATA controller. Which one were you using with your RAID 1 setup?

I guess that you can disable the secondary SATA in the BIOS settings: Advanced menu, Peripheral Configuration submenu.

I've never broken a RAID 1 array like that. I know that when drives are added to an array, the data on them are lost. Be sure to back up your disk (separately from the second drive in the RAID pair), just in case your experiments lead to data loss.

I've already cleaned and reformatted the second drive. This was first set up with Vista Ultimate when it couldn't function like it should have. The second 500GB drive is not connected, so no problem there.

Frostmourne said:

For an array, you need to find out where the option is for your hard drives, and then change them to IDE, not AHCI. Try Advanced CMOS features. Otherwise look in the manual for the key to boot into the RAID config offered by the Marvell controller and then delete the RAID in there.

The floppies I have say *Blue SATA Connectors* (Marvell Sata Controller RAID Driver), which I'm assuming they would be blue wires.
The *Matrix Storage RAID Driver* has black SATA Connections.

Which ones should I unplug?

No ... when do I do this --> pressing Ctrl+F1 ...on start up?
I get to the BIOS by pressing F2

Well I'll see what that does and get back to all you {{wonderful}} people later. :)
Thanks for trying to help me!

Hi sygnus21 :)

I don't know where to go to disable it in the BIOS
Can you give me a detailed map, please?