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#31 | RE: REQUEST: Lenovo Thinkpad W701DS - Add TRIM support for Intel RAID datum

Fri Dec 11, 2020 11:31 am

@knubbze:
To be able to answer your question I need to know the HardwareIDs of your on-board Intel SATA RAID Controller (expand the "Storage Controllers" section of the Device Manager, right-click onto the named Controller and choose the options "Properties" > "Details" > "Property" > "HardwareIDs").
Although it doesn't 100% match the version of the Intel RAID ROM, which is within the mainboard BIOS, I suspect, that the best Intel RAID driver for your system would be the Intel RST v11.2.0.1006 WHQL.
If you want to do a fresh install of Win10, I recommend to remove the in-box Intel RST RAID driver v15.44.0.1015 from both images (boot.wim and install.wim) and to integrate the mentioned v11.2.0.1006 one. >Here< is the related guide.

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#32 | RE: REQUEST: Lenovo Thinkpad W701DS - Add TRIM support for Intel RAID datum

Fri Dec 11, 2020 2:42 pm (Last edited: Fri Dec 11, 2020 4:59 pm)

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #31
@knubbze:
To be able to answer your question I need to know the HardwareIDs of your on-board Intel SATA RAID Controller (expand the "Storage Controllers" section of the Device Manager, right-click onto the named Controller and choose the options "Properties" > "Details" > "Property" > "HardwareIDs").

Here's what Windows 7 reports (I haven't installed Windows 10 yet; I'm waiting until I figure all of this out): http://0x0.st/ihdc.png (this was with the controllerl set to AHCI mode in the BIOS to enable me to boot into that existing Windows 7 installation - does it need to be set to RAID in order to show the necessary hardware ID that you require?

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #31
Although it doesn't 100% match the version of the Intel RAID ROM, which is within the mainboard BIOS, I suspect, that the best Intel RAID driver for your system would be the Intel RST v11.2.0.1006 WHQL.
If you want to do a fresh install of Win10, I recommend to remove the in-box Intel RST RAID driver v15.44.0.1015 from both images (boot.wim and install.wim) and to integrate the mentioned v11.2.0.1006 one. >Here< is the related guide.

Thanks, @Fernando, I will do this when I install Windows 10.

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#33 | RE: REQUEST: Lenovo Thinkpad W701DS - Add TRIM support for Intel RAID datum

Fri Dec 11, 2020 5:04 pm

@knubbze:
The HardwareIDs of the Intel SATA AHCI Controller verify, that the Intel chipset of your laptop belongs to the 5-Series and the DeviceID of the Intel SATA RAID Controller is DEV_2822. So you will be able to use the Intel RAID driver v11.2.0.1006 WHQL without any problem.

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#34 | RE: REQUEST: Lenovo Thinkpad W701DS - Add TRIM support for Intel RAID datum

Sat Dec 12, 2020 6:20 pm (Last edited: Sat Dec 12, 2020 6:50 pm)

@Fernando Thanks!

However, I went to your 'recommended drivers' thread to download the above driver the you recommend, but saw this notice about the v11.2.0.1006 drivers:
"TRIM in RAID0" is supported (Precondition: An actual Intel RAID ROM or EFI RAID "SataDriver" from v11 up is present within the BIOS)."

Does this only apply to unmodified RAID BIOS ROMs? The RAID ROM in my system's BIOS that @Lost_N_BIOS was able to modify is v9.5.0.1037 - does this mean that it will support TRIM in a RAID0 array now that he has modified it? This was the whole purpose of working on modifying this BIOS ROM...

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#35 | RE: REQUEST: Lenovo Thinkpad W701DS - Add TRIM support for Intel RAID datum

Sat Dec 12, 2020 7:01 pm

@knubbze:
You are right - the text of the related start post was somehow misleading. Meanwhile I have customized it and hope, that it is clear now.
Conclusion: Once the BIOS of your mainboard contains any TRIM in RAID0 modded Intel RAID ROM or an original RST one from v11.2 series up, TRIM will be active within your Intel RAID0 array.

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#36 | RE: REQUEST: Lenovo Thinkpad W701DS - Add TRIM support for Intel RAID datum

Sat Dec 12, 2020 8:21 pm (Last edited: Sat Dec 12, 2020 8:30 pm)

@knubbze - You're welcome! And yes >> v9.5.0.1037

* Edit - @knubbze -
Here's how that TRIM check tool looks on working TRIM enabled system (non-RAID here)

Edit by Fernando: Lost_N_BIOS hasn't been online since January 2021.

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#37 | RE: REQUEST: Lenovo Thinkpad W701DS - Add TRIM support for Intel RAID datum

Sat Dec 12, 2020 8:31 pm (Last edited: Sat Dec 12, 2020 10:06 pm)

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #31
If you want to do a fresh install of Win10, I recommend to remove the in-box Intel RST RAID driver v15.44.0.1015 from both images (boot.wim and install.wim) and to integrate the mentioned v11.2.0.1006 one. >Here< is the related guide.

@Fernando - I have been following the steps from your guide that you linked above, to integrate the suggested v11.2.0.1006 driver, which went fine, but when it came to remove the in-box Intel driver, NTLite would not allow me to remove any drivers because I am using the free version (see screenshot below). Is there a different NTLite version which will allow the removal of drivers?
Screenshot: https://0x0.st/iFzI.png

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#38 | RE: REQUEST: Lenovo Thinkpad W701DS - Add TRIM support for Intel RAID datum

Sat Dec 12, 2020 10:14 pm

@knubbze:
You are right - nuhi, the developer of the NTLite tool, obviously has recently removed this option from the Free version of NTLite.
Bad consequence for you: You may have to buy an NTLite license to be able to remove the in-box iaStorav.inf file by using nuhi's tool.
Nevertheless I will contact nuhi and ask him why he had removed this option, which is very important for users, who have or want to create an Intel RAID array.

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#39 | RE: REQUEST: Lenovo Thinkpad W701DS - Add TRIM support for Intel RAID datum

Sat Dec 12, 2020 10:18 pm (Last edited: Sat Dec 12, 2020 10:20 pm)

Or, maybe find old version hosted elsewhere in google? What version has it for sure, I may have copy of old version?
* Edit, I have the following if you need >>
nLite-1.4.1
nLite-1.4.9.1
nLite-1.4.9.3

Edit by Fernando: Lost_N_BIOS hasn't been online since January 2021.

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#40 | RE: REQUEST: Lenovo Thinkpad W701DS - Add TRIM support for Intel RAID datum

Sat Dec 12, 2020 11:12 pm

@Lost_N_BIOS - I managed to find an older version already, but thanks for your kind offer. Also thanks @Fernando. You've both been wonderful help throughout this long process. I will now setup a RAID0 array and install Windows, and test if TRIM is working.

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#41 | RE: REQUEST: Lenovo Thinkpad W701DS - Add TRIM support for Intel RAID datum

Sat Dec 12, 2020 11:21 pm (Last edited: Sun Dec 13, 2020 6:38 am)

@Lost_N_BIOS:

Zitat von Lost_N_BIOS im Beitrag #39
nLite-1.4.1
nLite-1.4.9.1
nLite-1.4.9.3

The user knubbze needs an older version of the tool named NTLite, not of the XP tool named nLite.
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@knubbze:
If you are interested, I found the NTLite version 1.6.1.6190 from May 2018.

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#42 | RE: REQUEST: Lenovo Thinkpad W701DS - Add TRIM support for Intel RAID datum

Sun Dec 13, 2020 6:42 am

@Fernando - Thanks, I missed that totally I must have never used this, or changed to doing Win7/10 ISO edits differently, I don't have a single copy of any version of NTLite in my installer folder
Since the longest time though, I kept clean Win7 and Win10 on VMWare, update them as updates come in, then pull image to make new ISO when needed.
So that's probably why I never have NTLite custom tool, since I do all my edits/changes in live OS, then pull WIM as needed to make new clean ISO how I wanted.

@knubbze - Glad you found an old version, of the correct program So, how did it go?

Edit by Fernando: Lost_N_BIOS hasn't been online since January 2021.

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#43 | RE: REQUEST: Lenovo Thinkpad W701DS - Add TRIM support for Intel RAID datum

Mon Dec 21, 2020 8:42 pm (Last edited: Mon Dec 21, 2020 11:36 pm)

Zitat von Lost_N_BIOS im Beitrag #42
@knubbze - Glad you found an old version, of the correct program So, how did it go?

I am pleased to report that according to that trimcheck utility, TRIM is indeed working! So, all of you and @Fernando's hard work paid off and was not in vain! So I am extremely happy that this long-term project finally came to a good conclusion. I hope that others who may have been in the same position as me find this thread and use your modified BIOS. So, thanks again for your invaluable assistance throughout.

I am now in the process of upgrading the hardware that the laptop supports to the maximum available specs: I've installed 32GB of RAM and upgraded to the fastest available CPU and GPU, and now just need to upgrade the WLAN card....

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#44 | RE: REQUEST: Lenovo Thinkpad W701DS - Add TRIM support for Intel RAID datum

Tue Jun 08, 2021 7:33 am (Last edited: Fri Jun 11, 2021 3:06 am)

Hi, I recently acquired a Thinkpad W701DS, and would like to use the Whitelist BIOS with TRIM support in RAID mode. Unfortunately, the link in post #23 does not work anymore. @Lost_N_BIOS and @knubbze could either of you re-upload those packages? Thanks for your help!

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#45 | RE: REQUEST: Lenovo Thinkpad W701DS - Add TRIM support for Intel RAID datum

Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:30 pm

Zitat von v7777 im Beitrag #44
Hi, I recently acquired a Thinkpad W701DS, and would like to use the Whitelist BIOS with TRIM support in RAID mode. Unfortunately, the link in post #23 does not work anymore. @Lost_N_BIOS and @knubbze could either of you re-upload those packages? Thanks for your help!

https://litter.catbox.moe/a2i60u.7z

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