2TB Hard Drive won't work on Marvell 6GB SATA port

Intel Core i7-960 3.20GHz LGA1366 CPU BX80601960
MB Intel BOX DX58OG
PSU Corsair 600W
MEM 4G KST KVR1333D3/4GR x3
EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Western Digital 500 GB SATA 6.0 GB-s Internal OEM Drive WD5000AAKX
Western Digital 2 TB Caviar Black SATA 6GB/s Internal OEM Drive WD2002FAEX

Just built this machine. Installed Windows 7 on the 500GB drive. Both drives are plugged into the blue SATA 6GB ports on my board. My drivers for these controllers are Marvell 91xx SATA 6G v1.2.0.1002 (Dated 3/7/2011).

The second 2TB drive shows up in BIOS as well as Drive Management in Windows, but it will not be recognized as an accessible drive that can be formatted, partitioned, or anything. I get an error each time I attempt to format or partition through Drive Management.

When I plug the 2TB drive into one of the other (black, Intel) SATA ports, the drive works fine, but in the blue ports it just won’t seem to work. The 500GB drive, however, works perfectly as the boot disk in these ports.

I would be fantastic if I could actually make use of the 6GB SATA ports, it’s part of the reason I purchased this board and these drives together. So far Intel tech support has no answers. Does anyone know what might be going on here? Please help!

Thanks.

Did you just purchase the drive? Do you have other SATA ports to test it in (friends, etc?)

Welcome to Seven forums Scoy. You have the same model number listed for both drives so I can't check the specs for the 2T drive.
It may be one SATA 6 header is bad, check that the other is operable by pluging in the 500GB drive and see if it works. Swap your data and power cable too.

Marvill don't work any better on a Asus P6X58D-E either. Intel is some what ashamed that they didn't do their job on sata III and went to marvill. Many have posted that they have better speeds using sata II which are Intel. I think Intel will get their xhit together and give us a download for the sata III soon. That would make me happy. Who was the one that said you get what you pay for. Their should of been a big (P/S) if you wait long enough.

From what you've said, you have tried the 2TB drive in both ports, and the 500GB drive in both ports that are 6gbps. If that is the case, it sounds like there might be a problem with the drive. Try and get it RMA'd for a replacement, Western Digital is pretty good about that kind of thing.

Scoy said:

I am also waiting on Intel Tech support to "recreate" my situation and get back to me.

Don't hold your breath, you'll die.