Forum - RE: Recommended AHCI/RAID and NVMe Drivers

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

Thu Sep 22, 2016 1:49 am

Thanks Fernando :) I'll give it a go when I receive the drive. I had a look and it seems that the XG3 is the OEM version of the RD400.

Here's hoping that turns out to be true!

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

Fri Sep 23, 2016 11:03 am

@Fernando,
It seems a new Micron PCIe NVMe driver does exist:
MICRON NVMe WHQL driver

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

Fri Sep 23, 2016 12:40 pm

@100PIER:
Thanks for the info.
By the way: >Here< I was able to find a download link to the obviously latest Micron NVMe drivers.

After having downloaded and executed the NVMe Installer driverpack, this is what I found out:

The latest 32/64bit Micron NVMe drivers are v2.1.5.0 dated 04/29/2016 and have gotten the WHQL stamp by MS at 05/10/2016.
These drivers will only work with SSDs, which have a Micron Technology (VEN_1344) NVMe Controller with one of the following DeviceIDs: DEV_5180, DEV_5181, DEV_ 5188, DEV_5189 or DEV_5402.
According to Micron these NVMe drivers have not been designed for being used with Windows 10. The only officially supported Windows Operating Systems are Win7, Win8.1, Server 2008 R2, Server 2012 and Server 2012 R2.

For you and other interested users with an NVMe SSD I attach the extracted 64bit NVMe driver v2.1.5.0 WHQL, which has been designed by Micron for Win8.1.

Before I will offer these NVMe drivers within the start post of this thread as "recommended", I need a feedback from users, who have tested them successfully.

Fernando has attached files to this post

64bit Micron NVMe driver v2.1.5.0 WHQL for Win8.1.rar

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

Fri Sep 23, 2016 5:35 pm

@Fernando,
I agree totally with you, we need feedback from users.

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

Sat Sep 24, 2016 5:00 pm (Last edited: Sat Sep 24, 2016 6:36 pm)

Zitat von d0e im Beitrag #450
I am looking into the toshiba XG3 1TB M.2 SSD, is there a known way/site for firmware and driver updates for this drive?
I saw a few posts back that others were asking this too. There was a response that may have been directed at them to OCZ drivers. I had a look in the link and saw no indication that the drivers were for the XG3.
I know OCZ is now owned by Toshiba but I want to make sure - is this link relevant to the XG3?

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #451
I haven't yet found such site myself, but I suspect, that the OCZ drivers will support your Toshiba SSD.

Chaps, OCZ's drivers and ssd utility now include support for the XG3 - according to their website this was added in July 2016. Check out the release notes under the relevant sections on their website here: https://ocz.com/eu/download/ (browse to the RD400 information using the drop-down menus.) The only problem I have is that I can't get win10 to stop using its own driver which it considers "more up to date" despite it being far older and a generic driver rather than custom by the manufacturer. Really dumb. Any idea how to bypass this? The only option I have is to delete the driver - no option to simply disable. Using the usual device manager -> update driver route just meets me with a MS pop-up of indifference. Bit worried that if I delete it and it hasn't recognised the OCZ driver I could be left with a bit of a problem...

Zitat von ocz
Windows® NVMe® Driver Release Notes
Version 1.2.126.843 July 11, 2016
Improvements:
This is a maintenance release of the Windows® NVM Express Device driver, with the following enhancements: Add support for XG3
Known Issues:
None

EDIT by Fernando: Unneeded parts of the fully quoted posts and blank lines removed (to save space)

ik9000 has attached files to this post

ocznvme-1.2.126.843_whck.zip

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

Sat Sep 24, 2016 6:42 pm

@ik9000:
Welcome at Win-RAID Forum and thanks for your contribution, which may help users of the Toshiba XG3 SSD.
By the way: The OCZ/Toshiba NVMe drivers, which you had attached to your post, are already within the start post of this thread.

Regards
Dieter (alias Fernando)

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

Sun Sep 25, 2016 1:17 pm

@Fernando
Thanks. Any pointers on how to get win10 to use this driver? Want to test-run it and make sure it works before I wipe the machine and install win7 with it

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

Sun Sep 25, 2016 2:04 pm

Zitat von ik9000 im Beitrag #458
Any pointers on how to get win10 to use this driver? Want to test-run it and make sure it works before I wipe the machine and install win7 with it

You can test it very easily without touching your current system:
1. Boot off the desired Win10 image and choose the "Installation" option.
2. When Setup shows the detected disk drives with their partitions and asks you, where you want to get the OS installed, hit the "Load driver" option, navigate to the prepared (unzipped) NVMe driver and choose the matching INF file. The Win10 Setup will load the driver into the memory of your system.
Now you can see, whether your NVMe drive is detected by the Win10 Setup or not.
In both cases you should stop the OS "installation" at this point, shut down your computer and remove the USB Flash Drive resp. DVD with the bootable Win10 image. Not a single data of your system will be touched.

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#459 | AMD 890GX + SB850 Chipset VEN_1002 RE: Recommended AHCI/RAID and NVMe Drivers datum

Sun Sep 25, 2016 3:07 pm (Last edited: Sun Sep 25, 2016 3:08 pm)

What would be the forum to discuss drivers in Win10x64 for the GA-890GPA-UD3H (rev. 2.0) AMD running AMD 890GX + SB850 Chipset on Win10x64 ? The RAID10 on 2 x 1.5TB drives works but I have no GUI to monitor other than the BIOS. Thanks

Using AMD Driver 3.3.1540.33 28/05/2012

Device PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4393&SUBSYS_B0021458&REV_40\3&18d45aa6&0&88 was started.

Driver Name: amdsbs.inf
Class Guid: {4D36E97B-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
Service: amdsbs
Lower Filters:
Upper Filters:

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#460 | RE: AMD 890GX + SB850 Chipset VEN_1002 Recommended AHCI/RAID and NVMe Drivers datum

Sun Sep 25, 2016 3:38 pm

Zitat von BootIT im Beitrag #460
What would be the forum to discuss drivers in Win10x64 for the GA-890GPA-UD3H (rev. 2.0) AMD running AMD 890GX + SB850 Chipset on Win10x64 ?

This is the correct thread for your questions regarding the AMD storage drivers.
If you want to monitor the health of your AMD RAID array, you will have to install the complete AMD RAID Drivers & Software Set instead of just the driver.

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

Sun Sep 25, 2016 6:56 pm

Thanks @ik9000 , It's good to see that the XG3 is officially supported! I haven't got the drive yet, but when I do I will attempt to do what Fernando said and install the driver at the beginning of reinstalling windows 10.

If it gets replaced by a windows driver that would be pretty annoying. I'm assuming you are using the 'Have Disk...' option for installing the new driver? That should work.. It's the same process people use for updating the driver on the SM961.

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#462 | RE: AMD 890GX + SB850 Chipset VEN_1002 Recommended AHCI/RAID and NVMe Drivers datum

Mon Sep 26, 2016 7:24 am (Last edited: Mon Sep 26, 2016 9:54 am)

Where do I get those from for Windows 10 x64 for VEN_1002

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

Mon Sep 26, 2016 12:29 pm

Zitat von d0e im Beitrag #462
Thanks @ik9000 ,
I'm assuming you are using the 'Have Disk...' option for installing the new driver? That should work.. It's the same process people use for updating the driver on the SM961.

No worries. Took me some hunting around one evening, and it doesn't show up readily in google searches. The have disk option doesn't work. Win10 decides what driver it considers more current. It deems that the generic MS driver v10.1. etc is more up to date than OCZ's 1.2. etc. Even when you manually direct it to the OCZ driver it just adopts a gallic accent, shrugs it's virtual software shoulders and says "Non!"

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

Mon Sep 26, 2016 3:07 pm

Zitat von ik9000 im Beitrag #464

Took me some hunting around one evening, and it doesn't show up readily in google searches. The have disk option doesn't work. Win10 decides what driver it considers more current. It deems that the generic MS driver v10.1. etc is more up to date than OCZ's 1.2. etc. Even when you manually direct it to the OCZ driver it just adopts a gallic accent, shrugs it's virtual software shoulders and says "Non!"

Well, that is not good! I really hope there's a way around that, as being able to use the driver that has been designed for the SSD would be nice.

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

Mon Sep 26, 2016 6:23 pm

Hi,
i want to install Win7 Enterprise 64-bit on a lenovo t460s with a PCIe/NVMe SSD.
The device name is Samsung MZSLW1T0. It should be the Samsung SSD 960 EVO M.2 1TB.

The Samsung nvme.inf from your website is not working for this NVMe SSD. Do you have
any ideas?
Now i m stucking at the win7 installation setup: -> No drives were found.
Is there a driver for a Samsung SSD 960?

I spended so much time to solve this issue, with no success.
regards Tim

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