Forum - General: Storage Drivers (AHCI/RAID, NVMe and USB)

Sun Nov 05, 2017 7:14 pm

Did anybody ever find or even make an AMD AHCI only driver for XP? I got an SSD and would really like to use it. Drivers are stuck in SCSI mode thanks to that "ahci compatible raid" nonsense :(
I know there was a 2k3 driver. I thought that possibly could have been retconned. I tried changing the 5.2 to 5.1 in the inf, but that just left me with a ! on the "AMD SATA controller" in device manager.
PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4391&CC_0106

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#2 | RE: XP AMD AHCI only? datum

Sun Nov 05, 2017 8:54 pm

@dg1972:
Welcome to the Win-RAID Forum!
I will look this evening for a suitable �clean� AMD AHCI driver, which is usable with Windows XP, but what is bad with the �AHCI compatible AMD RAID driver�?

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#3 | RE: XP AMD AHCI only? datum

Sun Nov 05, 2017 10:19 pm

Seen as SCSI disk. SSD software will not see the drive at all to trim it, or do OS optimizations. I know I could do all the OS things myself, but need the trim.

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#4 | RE: XP AMD AHCI only? datum

Sun Nov 05, 2017 10:54 pm

@dg1972:
Attached are 2 different AMD AHCI drivers, which have been customized by me to make them usable with your on-board AMD AHCI Controller and Windows XP, but I cannot give you any guarantee, that any of them really will work for you.
Please try them both and report, whether they work or not.

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#5 | RE: XP AMD AHCI only? datum

Sun Nov 05, 2017 11:21 pm (Last edited: Sun Nov 05, 2017 11:30 pm)

how do i install this exactly? ive never dealt with certs before.
both drivers give "the specified location does not contain information about your hardware"

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#6 | RE: XP AMD AHCI only? datum

Sun Nov 05, 2017 11:37 pm

Zitat von dg1972 im Beitrag #5
how do i install this exactly? ive never dealt with certs before.

That is why I have written >this< guide. You only have to read the start post.
If you want to get XP installed with one of the attached drivers, there is no need to import the Win-RAID CA Certificate. Just integrate the related driver into the XP image by using a tool like nLite.

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#7 | RE: XP AMD AHCI only? datum

Sun Nov 05, 2017 11:49 pm

oooooh. we're talking an os reinstall then. ok. gotta make plans for that. but then wouldnt the error message i got while trying to update the current driver still result in the driver not being used?

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#8 | RE: XP AMD AHCI only? datum

Mon Nov 06, 2017 12:02 am

Zitat von dg1972 im Beitrag #7
oooooh. we're talking an os reinstall then. ok. gotta make plans for that. but then wouldnt the error message i got while trying to update the current driver still result in the driver not being used?

Which driver are you currently using?
If it should be an "AHCI compatible RAID driver", you cannot simply update the driver, because your AMD SATA Controller is currently running in RAID mode, but the new driver needs an AMD SATA Controller, which has been set to "AHCI".

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#9 | RE: XP AMD AHCI only? datum

Mon Nov 06, 2017 12:11 am (Last edited: Mon Nov 06, 2017 12:13 am)

The SATA controller is in AHCI mode.
I had a RAID 0 set up on this pc (using the ahci compatible raid driver PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4392&CC_0106).
Imaged it to the SSD. (XP and W7 dual boot). Found standalone AHCI driver for 7 (amd sata controller). Switched BIOS from RAID to AHCI. Updated W7 ahci raid driver with the standalone. It now reports PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4391&CC_0106 and appears under the same place as other ATA/IDE controllers. Drive is no longer SCSI. SSD software is happy.

XP has no standalone AHCI driver. But the amd ahci raid driver reports PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4391&CC_0106.

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#10 | RE: XP AMD AHCI only? datum

Mon Nov 06, 2017 12:23 am

Zitat von dg1972 im Beitrag #9
XP has no standalone AHCI driver. But the amd ahci raid driver reports PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4391&CC_0106.

The question is, what the AMD SATA Controller reports regarding its HardwareIDs.

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#11 | RE: XP AMD AHCI only? datum

Mon Nov 06, 2017 12:32 am

It reports the exact same thing in 7 (amd sata controller PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4391&CC_0106) as the raid controller reports in XP.
If I had not updated the driver in 7, the raid controller would have switched hardware id from 4392 to 4391.
XP did the same thing for the hardware ID. switched from 4392 (raid mode) to 4391 (ahci mode) when i made the bios change. But in XP there is no AMD Sata Controller driver. I need one so that it will move the drive out of SCSI identification.

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#12 | RE: XP AMD AHCI only? datum

Mon Nov 06, 2017 1:01 am

@dg1972:
Have you already tried to get any of my attached AMD AHCI drivers installed while running XP? If yes, did it work?

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#13 | RE: XP AMD AHCI only? datum

Mon Nov 06, 2017 1:04 am

I have tried. Both reported "the specified location does not contain information about your hardware".

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#14 | RE: XP AMD AHCI only? datum

Mon Nov 06, 2017 1:09 am

Zitat von dg1972 im Beitrag #13
Both reported "the specified location does not contain information about your hardware".

Where and how did you try to install the drivers?

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#15 | RE: XP AMD AHCI only? datum

Mon Nov 06, 2017 1:12 am

the same way i did in windows 7 - by updating the ahci raid driver in device manager with the standalone ahci driver.

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