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#1 | Intel Atom x5-z8350 no AHCI mode? datum

Fri Jan 19, 2018 3:52 pm

Hello everyone, I�m from Italy and I bought this Mediacom notebook: http://www.mediacomeurope.it/Prodotti/Scheda.aspx?XRI=2841
As you can see, there is a m.2 SSD slot (weird, I didn�t know that atom z8350 supports SSD), so I bought a KingSpec m.2 2242 128GB SSD to increase space and speed. But I noticed that the speed is half than the onboard eMMC! (eMMC=90MB/s SSD=40MB/s). So I noticed that the SSD is recognized as "NT128 USB device". There's no option for enable AHCI in bios, I tried to install modded drivers from this forum but with no luck, I've also tried to edit keys in regedit, but without success. Any help appreciated!

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#2 | RE: Intel Atom x5-z8350 no AHCI mode? datum

Fri Jan 19, 2018 4:09 pm

@luca_madd:
Welcome to the Win-RAID Forum!

Please post the in-use driver and the HardwareIDs of the Controllers, which are listed within the "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" and "Storage Controllers" section of the Device Manager.
You will get the HardwareIDs by doing a right-click onto the Controller and choosing the options "Properties" > "Details" > "Property" > "HardwareIDs".
Once I got the required information, I will try to help you.

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#3 | RE: Intel Atom x5-z8350 no AHCI mode? datum

Fri Jan 19, 2018 4:49 pm (Last edited: Fri Jan 19, 2018 4:53 pm)

Hi Fernando, ad you can see from the attachments, there's no "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" section in device manager. But here is Hardware IDs from Storage Controller section.

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#4 | RE: Intel Atom x5-z8350 no AHCI mode? datum

Fri Jan 19, 2018 6:15 pm

@luca_madd:
Thanks for the screenshots.
What has let you think, that the KingSpec m.2 2242 128GB SSD, which seems to have a SATA interface, is supported by your notebook?
For me it seems, that your Mediacom notebook doesn't have an on-board SATA Controller.

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#5 | RE: Intel Atom x5-z8350 no AHCI mode? datum

Fri Jan 19, 2018 6:49 pm (Last edited: Fri Jan 19, 2018 7:22 pm)

Yeah, apparently it doesn't have it, even if there's a m.2 slot on the back.Seems that I will have to use the SSD as secondary storage. Anyway thanks for your answers.

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