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#541 | RE: Recommended AHCI and RAID Drivers datum

Sat Dec 10, 2016 7:38 pm

Zitat von ODP im Beitrag #541
In other words I can skip tips #7 and #9 (LPM disable) of your "guide to best SSD performance".....it is so?

Yes, that is correct, but maybe you can disable the "Link Power Management" from within your BIOS.

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

Sat Dec 10, 2016 8:13 pm

@Fernando,
Many thanks, all is clear.

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#543 | RE: Recommended AHCI and RAID Drivers datum

Sat Dec 10, 2016 11:24 pm

Hey Fernando, first of all, thanks for all that you did. I realized a performance boost in games after change the Amd sata controller 1.2.1.349 for the one that you recommended 1.3.1.220, but, i still have some stutterings. Do you recommend any sata controller for me? I have a Gigabyte 970A DS3P and 2 old sata 2 hdd's: 160gb samsung hd161hj and a 500gb wdc wd5000aaks.

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#544 | RE: Recommended AHCI and RAID Drivers datum

Sat Dec 10, 2016 11:47 pm

@Golfeti:
Welcome at Win-RAID Forum!

Zitat von Golfeti im Beitrag #544
Do you recommend any sata controller for me?

Yes, I recommend to take an Intel one, but I am unsure, whether you really meant "Controller".
Regarding the AMD storage drivers I cannot really help you, because I never owned a system with an AMD chipset mainboard. Unfortunately AMD's AHCI and RAID drivers are not the best and not very often updated.

Regards
Dieter (alias Fernando)

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#545 | RE: Recommended AHCI and RAID Drivers datum

Sun Dec 11, 2016 12:28 am (Last edited: Sun Dec 11, 2016 12:52 am)

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #545
Yes, I recommend to take an Intel one, but I am unsure, whether you really meant "Controller".

Hey, Thanks for the quick response. My mobo is for amd processor, is ok I use Intel sata controller? I don't know if i'm using the right terms, sorry, by controller i mean that "driver" we have on device manager,"IDE ATA/ATAPI controller"-->AMD Sata Controller(in my case) I heard that this amd ahci is not too good, for that reason i thinking to change.

EDIT by Fernando: Unneeded pars of the fully quoted post removed (to save space)

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#546 | RE: Recommended AHCI and RAID Drivers datum

Sun Dec 11, 2016 1:03 am

@Golfeti:
Your on-board "AMD SATA Controller" is hardware and part of the AMD chipset. So it is impossible to replace your on-board AMD SATA Controller by an Intel one.
What I recommend to do is to test different MS or AMD SATA drivers.
Question: With which SATA mode (IDE, AHCI or RAID) is your system drive running?

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#547 | RE: Recommended AHCI and RAID Drivers datum

Sun Dec 11, 2016 1:06 am

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #547
@Golfeti:
Your on-board "AMD SATA Controller" is hardware and part of the AMD chipset. So it is impossible to replace your on-board AMD SATA Controller by an Intel one.
What I recommend to do is to test different MS or AMD SATA drivers.
Question: With which SATA mode (IDE, AHCI or RAID) is your system drive running?

Oh thanks, i think i got it. So i should test a MS Sata driver too :) . My sata mode is AHCI at moment, it was in Native IDE but i change to do some tests. :)

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#548 | RE: Recommended AHCI and RAID Drivers datum

Sun Dec 11, 2016 1:09 am (Last edited: Sun Dec 11, 2016 1:23 am)

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #547
What I recommend to do is to test different MS or AMD SATA drivers.
Question: With which SATA mode (IDE, AHCI or RAID) is your system drive running?

Where can i download a MS SATA driver? I didn't find here on this post at first page.

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#549 | RE: Recommended AHCI and RAID Drivers datum

Sun Dec 11, 2016 1:21 am (Last edited: Sun Dec 11, 2016 1:25 am)

Zitat von Golfeti im Beitrag #549
Where can i download a MS SATA driver? I didn't find here on this post at first page.

The MS SATA drivers (PCIIDE.SYS and MSAHCI.SYS resp. STORAHCI.SYS) are part of the OS. That is why I do not offer them within this Forum.
Please answer my last question. Furthermore it would be good to know which Operating System you are running.

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#550 | RE: Recommended AHCI and RAID Drivers datum

Sun Dec 11, 2016 1:28 am

Thanks! I'm using AHCI mode, with windows 10 64 bits . So, is it impossible to i download MS Sata driver? Should i format my system and reinstall OS to get it?

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#551 | RE: Recommended AHCI and RAID Drivers datum

Sun Dec 11, 2016 5:46 am

Zitat von Golfeti im Beitrag #551
Thanks! I'm using AHCI mode, with windows 10 64 bits . So, is it impossible to i download MS Sata driver? Should i format my system and reinstall OS to get it?

just click update amd sata controller-then search on pc- choose from already installed. Standart ahci must be there...

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#552 | RE: Recommended AHCI and RAID Drivers datum

Sun Dec 11, 2016 10:11 am (Last edited: Sun Dec 11, 2016 10:11 am)

@Golfeti:

Zitat von vreduru im Beitrag #552
Standart ahci must be there...

Yes, and the listed "Standard SATA AHCI Controller" uses the MS in-box AHCI driver. Just choose it and you get it running instead of the AMD AHCI driver.

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

Sat Dec 17, 2016 1:45 am (Last edited: Sat Dec 17, 2016 1:47 am)

Sweet!

AMD launched some new drivers! v6.1.5.25 (VS old v6.1.5.22)

https://www2.ati.com/drivers/radeon-crim...-64bit-dec7.exe

Where-as before the latest for my A88X board DEV_ 7805 (model "Bolton") supported RAID only, the driver listing at least upon installation, said RAID with AHCI supported!

I did a quick test with CDI, it shows 1 disk of my 2 in the RAID, but at least it shows :D before it didn't show any drives!
I will test further later with other NON RAID drives plugged in to see how far that claim can go!

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

Sat Dec 17, 2016 9:27 am

AHCI or RAID...that is the same as coca-cola and coca-cola-light .
AHCI is like RAID when you do not have made the addition of drives .
before AHCI , the choice was ide or raid...so people were using raid controllers without making stripes ...making volumes was not as cool as today because of the drives or psu not so able to handle it...loosing entire drives of data neither ;']

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

Sat Dec 17, 2016 12:05 pm (Last edited: Sat Dec 17, 2016 12:06 pm)

@Net7:
Thanks for the info regarding the new AMD RAID drivers for AMD's "Bolton" models.
By the way: Your link didn't work for me. This is the link to the EN-US AMD Download Center: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

Zitat von grml4d im Beitrag #555
AHCI or RAID...that is the same as coca-cola and coca-cola-light .
AHCI is like RAID when you do not have made the addition of drives .

There are some additional differences:

AHCI is a modern standard SATA protocol with a lot of features like NCQ and hot-plugging. The RAID mode is much older and even the newest RAID Controllers do not support all the AHCI features.
Contrary to the AHCI mode the RAID mode boot time may be longer, because the related RAID ROM/EFI module of the BIOS has to be loaded. Modern Intel AHCI Controllers neither need nor use any BIOS "Firmware" while booting.

@all:
Update of the start post
Changelog:

AMD RAID drivers:
- new: "pure" 32/64bit AMD RAID drivers for DEV_7805 v6.1.5.25 WHQL dated 07/26/2016
  Note: Supported are only the AMD RAID Controllers DEV_7805 (model "Bolton"). These drivers have been designed by AMD for being used with Win10 x86/x64, but they may work with Win7/8.1 as well.

Thanks to Net7 for the info regarding these new drivers.

Regards
Dieter (alias Fernando)

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