ECS enables SAS ports on X79

ECS decided to give its X79 motherboards support for four SAS (serial-attached SCSI) ports wired to the PCH. Of course, it would be more appropriate to say that ECS simply enabled the four SAS channels that the Intel X79 chipset already had but wasn't supposed to use.

When Intel envisioned the X79, it planned to give it these four SAS channels. Unfortunately, due to what was described as