Will my ODD SATA cable port on mainboard support additional SATA111 M.2 ssd HD card while 3 other SATA drive bays are being used?

I've installed an NVMe M.2 gen3 PCIe card to a four-lane slot that had both M.2 B-key sata-cable slots & M.2 Nvme slot. I've populated both slots on the PCIe card with the relevant M.2 B key and connected the M.2 B key data STAT cable to the odd SATA data port on the mainboard + M.2 Mkey SSD card which is connected to the PCIe port on the mainboard. The M.2 M key is working fine however, The M.2 B key won't show up in the disk manager to initialize it.


My query is that the M.2 NVme works fine on the PCIe slot & the M.2 B key is connected to the odd SATA data port in the mainboard is not being registered. I've also got 3 SATA 3.5 HD connected to their tower inputs which work fine, in disk manager so how do I get the odd SATA to register the M.2 B key from the PCIe card. I'm running my Mac Pro 2,1 on windows10 pro insider. As I don't have any Apple OS or any updated Apple firmware flashes on this device, which has been upgraded with 2x-X5365 3.00GHZ quad-core 64-bit CPU 32GB Ram installed while there are 64GB installed on it, its shows only 32GB Ram's. And I'm therefore also wondering whether an Apple mauve flash firmware-update is also required, flashes are necessary for this to happen.

Windows, Windows 6

Posted on Jan 30, 2021 6:01 AM

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Posted on Feb 7, 2021 9:19 AM

I've now solved and remedied the initial issue, which was to get, a dual M.2 B-key and M-key NVMe SSD's on one PCIe card connected to a PCIe drive port and get a SATA data connection on the Mac-Pro 2-3,1 mainboard that hadn't been flashed with any Apple-firmware updates. I resolved this issue by customizing a SATA data cable to connect to an empty SATA HD data-port on the main-board. Which then connects directly to the SATA connection on the PCIe card. The device manager recognized it immediately for initializing. Now both M.2 B-key and M.2 M-key are working and mounted together with the PCIe card as the host of the M.2 B-key and M-key SSD NVMe SSD's. Thanks again for the assistance with the directions.

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Feb 7, 2021 9:19 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

I've now solved and remedied the initial issue, which was to get, a dual M.2 B-key and M-key NVMe SSD's on one PCIe card connected to a PCIe drive port and get a SATA data connection on the Mac-Pro 2-3,1 mainboard that hadn't been flashed with any Apple-firmware updates. I resolved this issue by customizing a SATA data cable to connect to an empty SATA HD data-port on the main-board. Which then connects directly to the SATA connection on the PCIe card. The device manager recognized it immediately for initializing. Now both M.2 B-key and M.2 M-key are working and mounted together with the PCIe card as the host of the M.2 B-key and M-key SSD NVMe SSD's. Thanks again for the assistance with the directions.

Jan 30, 2021 10:46 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Thanks, Grant, That awesome had crossed my mind for the optical drive suggestion, on the use of an ODD SATA port instead of the PCIe use of M.2 B key. Thanks also for the heads-up on windows not recognizing the ODD SATA port. As I've since asking used an alternate M.2 B+M key PCIe on a separate rig, which is only SATA11 that worked fine, so I'll switch over the PCIe cards over to the Mac Pro, to see if that also work, as that first attempted PCIe card I used in the Mac Pro was a gen3- X4 card. Which using a lower spec card may resolve the issue, with a lower spec NGFF PCIe M.2 card. Thank you so much for your feedback.

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