booting from third party controller

[linuxfan66]

I have a friend with a asus z97-k which during build one of the sata ports got bent and the port works for now.

He has one SSD, two 2 tb hdds, 750gb laptop drive from previous build, and two optical drives(one blu ray reader).

the SSD is used for boot, 1 of the 2tb hdds is used for programs, the other for data.

He doesnt know which port contains what device.

Three questions:

If the optical drives are moved to a third sata controller on pci can he still boot from them easily?

If he put one or two of the hdds from the motherboard sata onto a different port on motherboard controller would it keep the same drive letter?

If he put one or two of the hdds from the motherboard sata onto the third party controller would it keep the same drive letter?

 

[linuxfan66]

I really do need an answer to this question...

[TheMcSame]

It should be fine.

 

The optical drive booting off a third sata controller... I guess that would be depend on the BIOS.

Would it keep the same drive letter? Yes, it should. Though tbf it doesn't matter if it does or not, you can change the drive letter in Windows.

[MARSTG]

Some add-on sata pci controller do not support the ODDs booting from them. You can still use them but some are not bootable. It says in the documentation of the card if they are bootable or not with ODDs. But this should not be a deterrent, Windows 7 and 8 can be installed via the bootable USB drive method, I do that every time.

[Captain_WD]

I have a friend with a asus z97-k which during build one of the sata ports got bent and the port works for now.

He has one SSD, two 2 tb hdds, 750gb laptop drive from previous build, and two optical drives(one blu ray reader).

the SSD is used for boot, 1 of the 2tb hdds is used for programs, the other for data.

He doesnt know which port contains what device.

Three questions:

If the optical drives are moved to a third sata controller on pci can he still boot from them easily?

If he put one or two of the hdds from the motherboard sata onto a different port on motherboard controller would it keep the same drive letter?

If he put one or two of the hdds from the motherboard sata onto the third party controller would it keep the same drive letter?

 

Hey there linuxfan66,

 

As the guys explained it depends on the specific controller if you can boot from it or not. 

You shouldn't have problems keeping the same letters on the drives even if you swap the drives between the motherboard and the different controllers. 

I would advise you to contact the support of the specific RAID controller card that you are considering buying and asking specifically if you are able to boot from it and for more info before making the purchase. The support should give you all the info you might need.

 

Captain_WD.