M6600 Owners Thread

Does anyone know off hand what device, port or whatever in the BIOS Configuration /Drives SATA 5 enables/disables controls?

 

eSATA on the dock I believe.

 

There was that Diskpart drive enumerating issue I had last March after installing a second Samsung SSD, where they switched their ordering assignment pre-Windows. I thought the issue might have been the proprietary firmware of the PM830, but it isn't the case because I switched it out for another new 840 Pro and the issue persists.

I think now this is just a problem that Windows has with SATA and MS acknowledges it as such. Though I can't help but think the Raid (or Dock) controller keeps some data stored somewhere and adds to the issue.

At any rate, when trying to get the Channels to report properly I experimented with disabling the various BIOS SATA devices and it turns out that disabling SATA 5 while installing Windows via Diskpart - the drives would report themselves as would be expected, that is, as expected Primary 0, Secondary 1 not the other way around.

Anyway, just something useful instead of having to remove one of the drives or swap drive positions; though this works just as well too, but more work.

So I guess SATA 0 is for removable drives including mSATA, SATA 3 is DVD fixed drive, SATA 4 is eSATA, SATA 5 is Dock.

Thanks

 

Is it correct to say that the M6600 cannot see or boot from a 4TB drive? (eSata)

 

Hi!

Has anyone tried samsung evo msata ssd in m6600? The 128gb is getting small (I like to put programs there, because it is fast, and lot of programs use the system drive). I'm thinking about getting a 512gb or 1tb. But I heard precisions are very picky with msata ssd's (but the current one in my machine is samsung too).
Thx!

 

mine currently using mSata 256GB BP3... so far more than enough as primary

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Thx. Sadly we dont have those around in my country (mainly samsung, crucial, intel, kingston).

 

yup neither us here... I'll purchase thru their website directly from USA...

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Can anyone tell me that the M6800 's lcd screen can be replaced by the touchscreen of M6600 cuz M6600 touchscreen uses n-trig digitizer which supports stylus pen and M6800 screen is wacom touch only

 

I ended up replacing the OEM 256gb Samsung 830 SSD with a retail model 512GB Samsung 830 SSD and haven't had one issue yet. Not sure if it was the SSD or what now.