Forum - RE: Recommended AHCI/RAID and NVMe Drivers

#376 | RE: Recommended AHCI/RAID and NVMe Drivers datum

Fri Feb 19, 2016 7:30 pm

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #376
Zitat von astrakan im Beitrag #375
Strange to see so much differences between ahci driver versions.
Yes, usually the benchmark results of different AHCI driver versions are close together, but sometimes even within the same development branch the results are quite different (example: look >here<).

Well, if you know the best version number for Z170 chipset with windows 10 ... I'd like it. :)

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#377 | RE: Recommended AHCI/RAID and NVMe Drivers datum

Fri Feb 19, 2016 7:52 pm

Zitat von astrakan im Beitrag #377
Well, if you know the best version number for Z170 chipset with windows 10 ... I'd like it. :)

As long as I don't have an Intel Z170 Chipset system, I cannot do the required tests.

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#378 | RE: Recommended AHCI/RAID and NVMe Drivers datum

Tue Feb 23, 2016 1:14 pm

I have installed this on a Pavillion 11 x360 and solved the issue http://whp-hou9.cold.extweb.hp.com/pub/s...000/sp69828.exe

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#379 | RE: Recommended AHCI/RAID and NVMe Drivers datum

Fri Mar 11, 2016 4:15 pm (Last edited: Fri Mar 11, 2016 4:19 pm)

G. Samsung NVMe Drivers

The "pure 32/64bit Samsung NVMe Drivers v1.4.7.17 WHQL" is working for W7x64 but not for W7x86 systems. I modified the pure driver by injecting/overwriting the two correct files nvme.sys and nvmeF.sys for x86 systems. Now W7x86 recognizes the NMMe SSD when you reload the driver.

Yours faithfully

obi68

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Samsung NVMe drivers v1.4.7.17 WHQL (x86).rar

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#380 | RE: Recommended AHCI/RAID and NVMe Drivers datum

Fri Mar 11, 2016 6:00 pm

@obi68:
Welcome at Win-RAID Forum and thanks for your important contribution.
Additional questions:
1. How did you get the 32bit files? If you were able to extract them from the complete NVMe Drivers & Installer Set, how did you manage the extraction?
2. Can you add the 32bit driver named nvmeF.sys, which is missing within your attached archive?
As soon as I got the missing nvmeF.sys file, I will update the start post of this thread and offer the 32bit and 64bit Samsung NVMe drivers separately.

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#381 | RE: Recommended AHCI/RAID and NVMe Drivers datum

Fri Mar 11, 2016 6:39 pm (Last edited: Fri Mar 11, 2016 6:53 pm)

Thank you for that great website. Without the information I found here I couldn't have done it.

1) I installed Win7x86 on an ordinary SATA-SSD then I took the "Samsung NVMe Drivers & Installer Set v1.4.7.17 WHQL" found in the G. Samsung NVMe Drivers section which is completely x86/x64 capable. In the W7 device manager I could see the two files that where needed to make the controller to work correctly. So I simply replaced this two files in the "pure 32/64bit Samsung NVMe Drivers v1.4.7.17 WHQL" driver and tried it. It worked.
2) Maybe there is a WinRAR problem. I attached the file as ZIP.

obi68

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Samsung NVMe drivers v1.4.7.17 WHQL (x86).zip

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#382 | RE: Recommended AHCI/RAID and NVMe Drivers datum

Fri Mar 11, 2016 7:30 pm

@obi68:
Thanks for your quick reply and or having attached the ZIP archive, which contained all required files (the RAR archive obviously could not been extracted completely).
Meanwhile I have uploaded and offered both "pure" 32/64bit Samsung NVMe drivers separately (see below).
By the way: Since the "Precompiled Setup Information" files named nvme.PNF are neither part of the original drivers nor needed for a proper installation of the "pure" drivers, I haven't put them into my driver packages.

@all:
Update of the start post
Changelog:

Samsung NVMe drivers:
- new: separate "pure" 32/64bit Samsung NVMe driver v1.4.7.17 WHQL for Win7-10

Thanks to obi68 for having found and posted the missing "pure" 32bit Samsung NVMe driverpack.

Good luck with these new "pure" 32/64bit Samsung NVMe drivers!
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#383 | RE: Recommended AHCI/RAID and NVMe Drivers datum

Fri Mar 11, 2016 8:24 pm

@Fernando,
For W10 x64 in what case do you recommend to install the 'pure' Samsung NVMe driver (v1.4.7.17) instead of the official Samsung NVMe v1.4.7.17 Package ?
In my case i have this screen of the details:

Do you think some pieces of software are missing ?
Do you think to install the 'pure' driver will add a 'needed' file such as : nvmeF.sys ?

ASUS Sabertooth X99/USB 3.1, W10 x64 21H2 NVMe i750, BIOS v4101, CPU Intel i7 5930K, 32GB DDR4, Asus GTX 1660TI 6GB DDR6
ASUS PRIME Z390M-Plus W11 x64 21H2 22000.194 NVMe 970 , BIOS v3004, 16GB DDR4, CPUs: Intel i3-8100 (4 cores) +UHD 630, i5-9400F (6 cores) +GTX 980.

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#384 | RE: Recommended AHCI/RAID and NVMe Drivers datum

Fri Mar 11, 2016 10:30 pm

Zitat von 100PIER im Beitrag #384
For W10 x64 in what case do you recommend to install the 'pure' Samsung NVMe driver (v1.4.7.17) instead of the official Samsung NVMe v1.4.7.17 Package ?

Unless an associated Software is really important or desired, I always prefer to install the "pure" drivers instead of running any installer.
Reasons:
1. A later driver update or "downgrade" can be done on-top of the old driver. The driver will be simply replaced. A previous uninstall of the formerly used installer software is not required.
2. Each automatic installation by using the installer script will leave a lot of waste/bargage within the usually hidden Temp directories.

Zitat
Do you think some pieces of software are missing ?

No!

Zitat
Do you think to install the 'pure' driver will add a 'needed' file such as : nvmeF.sys ?

All required and useful installation procedure details are done by the OS according to the associated *.inf file (here: nvme.inf). AFAIK the additional SCSI filter driver named nvmeF.sys will only be installed by Win7. Win8/8.1 and Win10 don't need this driver (it is the same as with the iaStorF.sys).

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#385 | RE: Recommended AHCI/RAID and NVMe Drivers datum

Sat Mar 12, 2016 10:10 am

@Fernando,
Thanks for the clarification.

ASUS Sabertooth X99/USB 3.1, W10 x64 21H2 NVMe i750, BIOS v4101, CPU Intel i7 5930K, 32GB DDR4, Asus GTX 1660TI 6GB DDR6
ASUS PRIME Z390M-Plus W11 x64 21H2 22000.194 NVMe 970 , BIOS v3004, 16GB DDR4, CPUs: Intel i3-8100 (4 cores) +UHD 630, i5-9400F (6 cores) +GTX 980.

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#386 | RE: Recommended AHCI/RAID and NVMe Drivers datum

Wed Mar 16, 2016 6:48 pm (Last edited: Wed Mar 16, 2016 6:48 pm)

@ Fernando:

This AMD package might have some interesting AHCI/RAID drivers, for example Windows 10 versions. Also, section C,b has a miss-typed link.

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AMD_RAID_AHCI_XPWin7-81-10.rar

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#387 | RE: Which driver for AMD SB950 SATA controller? datum

Wed Mar 16, 2016 8:04 pm (Last edited: Wed Mar 16, 2016 8:34 pm)

Zitat von woken im Beitrag #374
Thanks so much for pointing out it was IDE, I've since had my friend reformat his computer that I'm trying to update his AHCI driver on and set AHCI mode into bios instead of IDE and successfully found 4391 on his hardware ID and used the suggested AHCI driver for it in the first page, thanks again Fernando

Hello,

why don't you take the official drivers from the AMD website (Desktop grafic card Win 8.1 x64).
Have a look under [Optional Downloads] -> [AMD Chipset Drivers].
They are actual and best choose for actual Crimson drivers.
You find then Win8.1 AHCI-driver v1.3.001.0276 (from 03/19/2015 *Win7,8.1,10) here -> C:\AMD\Radeon-Crimson-15.12-SB-SATA-AHCI-Win10-Win8.1-Win7-64Bit\Packages\Drivers\SBDrv\hseries\AHCI\WB64A to manual update via device manager.
*** ups, I see at the first page -> there are the same drivers like from AMD website, but without all the rest stuff you maybe don't need. Sooo, my fault -> sorry!!

And it's almost the same with XP-drivers -> both kind of drivers are important (amd_sata.sys + amd_xata.sys). amd_xata.sys is the upper filter driver and amd_sata.sys the "normal" driver(and service). Nothing has changed here!
I write this because of discussion some posts before ...

The only problem for older versions of this driver (and only for SB7x0 mainboards !!!) was a wrong setting of Power Managment -> fix it so in amd_sata.inf:
HKR, "Parameters\Device","AmdSataPMDisabled",%REG_DWORD%, 0
add "FF" at the end
HKR, "Parameters\Device","AmdSataPMDisabled",%REG_DWORD%, 0FF
especially for driver v1.2.001.0359 (from 11/06/2013 *for Win7 only!), which should be the fastest (I don't know, but I found this information here in this forum).
(I don't know, if there're the same problem in Win8.1 and Win10.)

Best regards, MiMo

P.S. @ plutomaniac
The drivers you attached are not fixed for SB7x0 (Win7 32/64bit) -> better to put in an info for the fact, that system runs into a bluescreen -> to add "FF" at the end of ... (please see some lines above, what I wrote!).
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#388 | RE: Which driver for AMD SB950 SATA controller? datum

Wed Mar 16, 2016 8:37 pm (Last edited: Wed Mar 16, 2016 8:40 pm)

I just provided the source files. I don't know about fixes or other details as I don't have such systems and thus experience. So if there's something newer etc then you'll guys have to do any changes or additions yourselves.

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#389 | RE: Which driver for AMD SB950 SATA controller? datum

Wed Mar 16, 2016 9:01 pm

Hi Fernando,

my fault with Samsung NVME Driver, have new extractet this Driver, you have 6 Version for OS (win7, Win8.1, Win10) as 32-bit or 64-bit.

Regards
morpheus67

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Samsung NVM Express Driver 1.4.7.17.zip

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#390 | RE: Recommended AHCI/RAID and NVMe Drivers datum

Wed Mar 16, 2016 9:08 pm (Last edited: Wed Mar 16, 2016 10:07 pm)

@plutomaniac:
Thanks for the attached AMD driverpack. I will do a look into it and decide, whether I will offer any of the included AHCI/RAID drivers within the start post or not.
Update:
Although your attached driver package seems to be rather new, it doesn't contain any AMD AHCI/RAID drivers, which were not already linked within the start post of this thread. The only new information is, that the latest AMD AHCI drivers v1.3.1.276 dated 03/19/2015, which natively were designed just for Win8/8.1, now officially do support Win10 as well. That is why I have customized the related description of the drivers within the start post.

Zitat von plutomaniac im Beitrag #387
Also, section C,b has a miss-typed link.

Thanks for the info. After having fixed the formatting mistake everything should be fine now.

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