(I could not have tracked down my RST issues without the guidance I found on this forum. Thank you all).
I just updated from an older RST (version 8) to RST version 12.8.0.1016.
I immediately ran into the RST service won't start issue. (but ***SEE UPDATEs BELOW, in RED***)
RST 12.8.0.1016 is apparently not fixed in regards to previously mentioned Marvell conflicts. My experience is that 12.8.0.1016 RTS will not stay started if the Marvell sata/esata is enabled in either AHCI or RAID mode, RTS will stay started if Marvell is in the IDE mode. (On my MoBo, the Marvell SATA is called "secondary SATA" in the bios). ***SEE UPDATEs BELOW, in RED***
I have included a screenshot that describes my situation and my workaround.
SUMMARY for my situation: the Marvell is composed of a SATA bus and eSATA bus. When the Marvell is set to AHCI or RAID in the bios, RST will not start. My testing shows (that for me) it is the Marvell eSata bus (with or without an actual eSata HDU attached) that prevents RST from starting, while the Marvell sata bus seems to co-exist OK with RST (however, this may not be true if HDUs instead of optical devices were attached on the sata bus: untested by me). Again, see screen shot for the full picture and for my workaround.
Hope this helps someone else to save time in tracking down this issue...
byron k.
(image below can be clicked on to see a sharper version)
mobo: intel DZ68BC
bios: BCZ6810H.86A.0027
Proc: intel core i7-2600@3.4ghz
ram: 8gb
OS: windows 7, 64b
primary storage bus: intel desktop/workstation/server Express Chipset SATA RAID onboard controller (set to RAID in BIOS) with 1x100gb SSD system/boot drive and 3x1TB in RAID 5 for storage.
secondary storage bus: Marvel 91xx sata/esata onboard controller (set to AHCI in bios) with 2 DVD burners on the SATA bus and occasionally an eSata drive on the eSata bus.
RST v: 12.8.0.1016
Marvell Driver: v 1.2.0.1012 when I wrote the original version of this post. Then I updated it to 1.2.0.1019 and that fixed it.
**UPDATE: (12-15-2013) I finally tracked down a newer version of the Marvell driver (1.2.0.1019, from the Intel website), which moved the Marvell SATA bus device from under the "IDE ATA/ATAPI" tree in device manager TO the "Storage Device" tree. Like previous poster UOB mentions, that seems to be the ticket. Once the Marvell SATA was positioned there, the RST startup conflicts went away.
Message was edited by: Byron K (on 12-15-2013) to indicate how I finally "fixed" this problem. Fixes are discussed in the RED text.