hi all, i need some help

long story short. i have setup a raid 0 before but has been removed long time ago. now i want to setup a new raid 1 but facing problems.

my platform is asus x99 deluxe running server 2016 x64. and the leftovers on my system is v15 iRST premium!! now when i put my raid disks it wont boot and show me a bsod. i could not install any rst or drivers with platform not supported error, including original from asus and modded drivers, (i know i have to use v14.x). i also tried to install the drivers manually by right click on the inf files only but no luck.

i have another backup with some other problems but the raid 1 set up properly. i found the drivers available in the storage controllers are different. on the current system i could only see v15 but on this backup the default drivers named intel sata raid controller with v14 drivers. so i believe this is what i need but unfortunately i forgot how i installed it before. what i am sure is that i created the raid via command line (no gui/console)

so my question is simple. how do i get rid of the v15 RST premium drivers on the current system and replace it with v14 ( intel sata raid controller) ?


this is what i got with raid set up properly in the backup



this is what i got now, the one named desktop/workstation/server controller is v13


i have tried couples of times by updating/removing/deleting the v15 and reinstall the v14 but none of them work. if i delete the v15 drivers i could not see any intel raid drivers under the storage controller even i installed v14 manually. switching ahci/raid mode in bios didnt work neither and the system just didnt find any new hardware.


any suggestion pls?

thanks a lot

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #2001

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Before I will try to help you, please answer the following questions:

1. Have you ever installed a complete Intel RST/RSTe Drivers & Software Set?
   If yes, have you made sure, that you had uninstalled the related Intel RST Software from within the Control Panel ("Add/remove programs") and rebooted the system, before you installed any other Intel RST driver?
2. With which SATA ports (numbers and colour) of your mainboard are the RAIDed Disk Drives connected?
3. Are the in-use SATA ports running in RST or RSTe mode?
4. Which version does the Intel RST/RSTe RAID Utility (available either via CRTL+I or from within the BIOS) show?
   If possible, post a screenshot of the Intel RST/RSTe RAID Utility.

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@Fernando:
quick question, how do i know in bios that it's in rst or rste mode? i couldnt find it in bios

btw, i have found in system32/drivers/iaStorA.sys is still v15
and in the registry, the key for v14 iaAHCIC and iaStorAC are without any subkeys like others do


EDIT by Fernando: Unneeded fully quoted post replaced by directly addressing (to save space)

first of all, sorry for quoting the full msg, u know.... it happens...

ok. i have searched for RSTe thing in bios as well as google but couldnt find any info about that for x99, or at least for my asus x99 mobo. i will take a look at that again later

sencondly i would like to thanks for your help but for me re installing the whole system is a no go. i will try to find a way to cope with this, hopefully

final but not least, just received your popup notice. i would like to thanks for your contributions over the past years, although i am i newbie here. so enjoy your life (english is not my native language so forgive me if i used any wrong wordings)

thanks once again

thanks

and if i remember correctly (and understood correctly), the x99 has 2 sets of sata . 1st one is intel rst, usually port 1 to 10, and the 2nd one is rste if it's intel. my mobo's 2nd sata set is a asmedia so i think it's running with rst only

On my Sabertooth X99 Intel Controller 1 does handle SATA_1 to SATA_6 via RST supporting AHCI and RAID mode, and Intel Controller 2 does handle SATA_7 to SATA_10 via RSTe supporting only AHCI mode.

@Fernando @100PIER

i just learnt here (probably from 100pier) 2 days ago :D
and not until i read that post, i could not realize that i have only ONE intel sata controller..... i thought both of them should be intel... perhaps i have confused with the lan drivers coz mine has 2 intel nic on board

but i am still wondering why i could not add back a intel raid in stroage controller under device manager (and how i did it on the backup platform), there's no such thing as intel no matter what i try after the v15 driver was removed (v15 shouldnt be on x99 rite (not supported platform)? how did i install it before together with rst??

@johnson
On my side I do use W10 64bits Home version 1809.
The ASUS Sabertooth X99 does seem maybe different from your X99 model ?
nota: I have also 2 lan chips (Intel and Realtek). One ASMEDIA chip does handle USB 3.1 ports.
With HWINFO or SIV64 tools you can get all the details of your mboard architecture.
For sure on my side the 2 SATA controllers are Intel.
This HWINFO and DriverController screenshot does illustrate the SATA configuration with the drivers used:


In my example, as you can see I have build two different RAID0 volumes handled by the SATA Controller 1.

I have build these two different RAID volumes exclusively under BIOS menu interface and never used W10 interface to do that.
Why you don't use BIOS menu to manage your RAID architecture ?

nota: Intel SATA Controller 2 does handle exclusively (mboard architecture choice done by ASUS for this model - Ref Manuel Guide) the AHCI/IDE modes.

hi @100PIER

yeah i know. when i bought my x99 mobo i focused on a few things. 1st i wanted dual lan and intel only. 2nd i looked for one that support as much sata ports as possible since after a few years this will become my server, but, i think i have forgot to compare the sata controllers as well. anyway i chose the deluxe one finally

yes i konw i can create raid in the bios. i used to create raid in bios only for many years, or just create a strip set under windows. but this time it's a bit different. in the past i used raid 0 only and i did it in bios and then windows could boot properly and i didnt have to install rst, or perhaps i have installed rst but i never use it. now after i create the raid 1 in bios, windows wouldnt boot and showed me a bsod. that's why i need to find a way to install the rst on my current system.