@ Fernando
Then I will not be added until this versions. If there are requests to add, then do it. :)

http://www.lab-z.com/2014gvs/

Is this tool interesting for some of you? It could split the GOP and VBT from a BayTrail BIOS. Maybe someone should ask for the source?

Hi Fernando!
First of all thank you for all your work here regarding all the BIOS ROMs, drivers and anything relevant to that. I sucessfully replaced some old Intel RST option ROMs with newer ones to get TRIM support and a large performance gain for example on a P55 chipset board with two Intel Postville G2 SSDs in Raid0 config.

Right now I have a question that you may not be able to answer, but maybe you at least have any advice.

I have a ASUS H77 (model P8H77-I that is ITX size) mainboard and I want to use the Raid 5 mode of it. I have three new Seagate Archive v2 8TB drives (ST8000AS0002) for that. I know that they are NOT intended for any RAID configurations because of their SMR (ShingledMagneticRecording) technology, but I want to give it a try anyway. I also have a true SAS raid card in that machine (LSI 9260-8i) with an older firmware that I don't want to upgrade since it supports configured drive spindown / powersave. Because of that SMR technology of the harddrives I think it might be better to use the Intel SATA ports and an updated RST module and driver for that. I don't mind not having the RAID 5 performance that the LSI card might deliver in favor of a stable RAID array without problems. The LSI controller might drop a SMR drive early if it has a long answering delay because of the SMR work it does, but that might happen to the Intel RAID too, who knows.

Anyway - I used MMTool to check what RST version my BIOS/UEFI uses and I found it to be v. 11.5.0.1582.

To maybe dodge any problems with these new drives I want to upgrade the module to the latest or at least best working one. You recommend the v13.1.0.2126 module for the 7-series chipsets in your "AHCI & RAID ROM Modules" thread and state that the v14 modules do not fully support the older "up to 7-series" chipsets.

Do you think I should go with the v13.1.0.2126 module and a suiting driver for that?
Or the v13.5.0.2164 since it seems to be the latest v13 module?
Or should I just go ahead and try the v14.7.0.2341 one?

GUI of my BIOS/UEFI is 90C8D394 so the fist download link for the modules should be the correct one.

Thank you for your help.

Hi,
I want to ask if the Intel RSTe EFI "SataDriver" v3.8.0.1029 version was the latest that can be installed in X79 chipset and version 4.3.0.1018 was for X99 only?
Can version 4.3.0.1018 be installed on X79 chipset?

Currently I have a Volume (RAID 1) build on Intel Soft RAID controller with v3.8.0.1029 BIOS version with RSTe (My MOBO is ASUS P79X WS)
If I upgrade to 4.3.0.1018 will my data be safe or lost and I will have to recreate the whole RAID 1?

I had some problems with 3.8 drivers on windows 10 so I upgraded windows drivers to 4.3.0.1542
Should I upgrade to 4.3.0.1018 BIOS?

Best Regards,
mix2ra

@Fernando
Thank you for your quick reply.

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #357

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You can test whatever Intel RAID ROM/EFI BIOS module in combination with whatever Intel RAID driver version, but I recommend to use the Intel RST(e) RAID combo v13.1.0.2126/13.1.0.1058, because it has been optimized for Intel 7-Series Chipset systems.

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