Boot Chimera with Apricorn Velocity Solo x2 / SSD from Gigabyte GA-X58-UD5?

[potatohead113]

Anyone have any tips for my Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 (Award BIOS F12) to boot Chimera from a Samsung 850 Pro 512GB drive attached to the Apricorn Velocity Solo x2 SATA3 PCIe card? I can't boot from it, as the BIOS does not recognize the drive in the Boot Priority list, but once booted to another drive via Windows 7, this system can see the Apricorn-connected drive and allows read/writes to it. Note I've tried putting Bootable Add-In Cards at the top of the Boot Priority list in the BIOS, and I've even tried disconnecting all but drives but the one connected to the Apricorn PCIe card to no avail.

The Apricorn supposedly has the Marvell 9182 chipset, while my older GA-EX58-UD5 only has SATA2 ports (using Intel + JMicron chipsets), and, get this....

I CAN BOOT Chimera from the same SATA 3 drive using a DIFFERENT PCIe card with an ASM1061 SATA3 chipset (!!), the BIOS sees the drive in the Boot Priority list, and I see it loading ASM 1061 info before going into Chimera. That said, the performance on the ASM1061 card seems limited to 420MB/s Read, 388MB/s Write speed, whereas the 850 Pro 512GB theoretically should get up towards 550/520. This is why I want to use th

Any one have any tips to get my BIOS to see this drive connected to the Apricorn?

Thanks in advance,
-Phil

 

[composerguy78]

Hi there Phil,
did you have any success with this? I have the Velocity Duo in a GA-Z77X-UP5 TH.

I'm trying to make it bootable.

Thx
Felix