A quick update for anyone interested in the matter.
A chat with Intel tech support has concluded that this board has a defective port.
Intel will not pay the shipping to replace their defective product.
A previous user, who had 14 of these boards, reported 100% of his boards had a similarly defective sata 6gb port.
Newegg has agreed to cover the shipping costs to replace the board. Fingers are crossed but I am dubious based the on the above user's results. If the replacement board is also defective, I will report it in a reply and never purchase an intel product (at least as far as boards are concerned) again.
If you are considering purchasing a DX58OG or similar Intel board, beware!
scoy, I am curious to know if your problem was resolved with a new board?
Hello. Actually, before I returned the board, I was able to determine the SATA III port, in fact, was not defective. The drive that was not working would work (in either port) when it was the only drive plugged into a SATA III port. Port 7, however, would not work when both drives were plugged into these ports at the same time (my initial setup). I believe this is a driver problem, which is irritating because Intel is relying on Marvell for this.
I looked into it and it seemed that my drive would not benefit much from the SATA III port anyway, so I ended up leaving my boot drive on one of the SATA III ports, since it is the faster drive and more likely to benefit from this, and just put my storage drive on one of the SATA II ports. This so far has worked fine for me, and I can't complain about the speeds.
In other words, until Intel (or Marvell) provides us with some better drivers, just pretend your board only has one SATA III port. I believe this would be the issue with most, if not all, boards currenty with SATA III ports.
Unfortunately that is exactly where we are at right now as well. We are building with this board still knowing that we only have one SATA III port. Intel has had our system for something ridiculous like 3 weeks now or so. We currently only have contact with our Intel rep, and not the actual technicians. So far, we've only been told that it could be that a cable was loose, or a bad cable, or just the cable management. We know that this is NOT the issue. We are certainly smart enough to test the cable scenario up and down before being willing to subject one of our builds to Intel. Also, we are not the only ones with this issue here, there is clearly an issue with this board/drivers in one way or another.
We think there is finally more clear comunication regarding this issue to our Intel rep and he will relay that info onto the techs. Hopefully there will be an answer soon.
In regards to your driver, Somebody posted a link to a driver from another thread on my thread.
http://communities.intel.com/message/123718#123718
This was not the answer for me, but possibly for you?
I did try that driver in your link about a week back and I found no change (only one port would work at a time).
Thanks for the update. Please let me know if you make any more discoveries, and I will do the same. Good luck.
