Good grief man, how on earth did you get the SATA HDD as a scsi device in "disk drives", and the WDC as a USB device? Is the WDC a HDD?
No my prim/sec have the JM drivers
Study the windowed driver screens from vailr
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/vailr/2007-04-08_120300.png
there is no F6 intel raid and no F6 Intel AHCI
I said as clearly as I could to turn off Intel, set in BIOS the JM to RAID OR AHCI depending on your needs, do the F6 with the JM 32 bit floppy, when you get the 4 device list at the select screen, pick JM AHCI OR JM RAID depending on what you want. If you pick RAID you will then put one additional JM SCSI RAID device to Dev Man besides the JM 36x controller which loads with AHCI only, per vailr's other screenie (he did RAID). You
MUST nuke your current install with the XP setup by deleting the O/S partition (hit "D", then "L"). This still leaves partition "place" intact and XP will format it. Ultimately after install, with an AHCI "S" select during setup, gives you the "SCSI Device - /JM 36x controller" with a second JM SCSI device as a yellow question mark - the question mark is the IDE part of the controller.You then add the the JM 2.80MB driver setup.exe on another computer to a USB stick. When you boot to windows on your DS3 the first time with no JM IDE loaded (the yellow question mark) you will see no burners - so you then run the JM setup.exe FROM THE USB STICK that will then remove the question marlk JM and move it up to IDE controllers with JM drivers. Your
IDE burners on the green will now show.and work fine.
Side note: I always run triple or quad boot, and make each O/S partition ~9GB (base 10), which is easily/quickly formatted, and easily backed up using Acronis True Image V 10.0 on a DL DVD.
The AHCI hack drivers are the LAST thing to be done when you finally turn on the Intel 0-3 and set it to AHCI, after reboot the new controller will be found and you steer XP to the drivers on the floppy you made (naked - no folder)
FWIW, I ran HDTach with AHCI Intel and no AHCI Intel, and there is no difference, and I'm scared to try the hot swap with a driver hack.
The DMI screens that slow boot for the Intel AHCI and JM controllers are necessary to alow BIOS to hand over HW to Windows. Nothing can be done about that. Thats why the newly released DFI 965P-S ICH8R, being native to chipset, is the best solution - no third party DMI screens.
You were talking about buying a SATA DVD, so I am unsure where you are right now with this. If you put the SATA drive on Intel, you will have to turn on Intel - which is not MY way. If you want to do it another way - be my guest. MY WAY will give MY RESULTS - for better or worse.
Um, what ODD and HDD are we talking about here that you are employing (and whether they are IDE or SATA) and where do you want them to be??? If I re-read your posts from the beginning, I will go stark raving mad.
Edit: (Another FWIW)
I ran HDTach on the seagate with stock multi and FSB and also with mild O/C - 3180, and av transfer was same, burst was only 3 more. And the Intel with seagate had ~25mb/s greater burst than JM, dont know if NCQ was active on JM. Average transfer never varied whatever I did, or where I did it. The old PCI bus on mobo IDE controller is specced at 33MHz and theoretical 127MB/s max transfer, so its the SATA "pipe", even in legacy IDE is what allows the big burst rate. Matrix RAID is the answer really to compenate for the current poor state of HDD.