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#1 | [Solved] Problem with Asmedia + Marvell 9215 S-ATA Controller - Running in IDE-Mode datum

Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:22 am (Last edited: Sat Feb 21, 2015 9:35 am)

Hi,

I have a Z77 Mainboard with the usual 6 Intel S-ATA Ports which work fine in S-ATA Mode.

As I am using 10 drives I also use onboard AS-Media (106) and Highpoint Rocket 620 (Marvell 9215) S-ATA Controller, which both seem to run in ATA (IDE) mode, see picture attached:

These controllers also seem to provide the ATA channels 0+1 (2x) in device manager.

Any chance to change this?

Thanks!

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#2 | RE: Problem with Asmedia + Marvell 9215 S-ATA Controller - Running in IDE-Mode datum

Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:36 am (Last edited: Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:37 am)

@ mike49:
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Zitat von mike49 im Beitrag #1
These controllers also seem to provide the ATA channels 0+1 (2x) in device manager.

The 4 drives, which are connected to the ASMedia and Highpoint Rocket SATA ports seem to be the only ones, which are running in IDE mode using the ATA Channels 0 and 1.

Zitat
Any chance to change this?

What do you want to change? If you want to run the 2 ASMedia SATA ports in AHCI mode, you have to change the related settings within the BIOS.

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Dieter (alias Fernando)

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#3 | RE: Problem with Asmedia + Marvell 9215 S-ATA Controller - Running in IDE-Mode datum

Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:43 am (Last edited: Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:37 pm)

Zitat
The 4 drives, which are connected to the ASMedia and Highpoint Rocket SATA ports seem to be the only ones, which are using the ATA Channels 0 and 1

.Yes, exactly. The 6 drives connected to Intel ports are all doing fine.

Zitat
What do you want to change? If you want to run the 2 ASMedia SATA ports in AHCI mode, you have to change the related settings within the BIOS.

Both controllers (ASMedia + Highpoint) are set to S-ATA, but windows recognizes them as ATA/IDE controllers. No chance to change this (usually I know what I am doing...)

(Just changed driver for ASM-Controller to msahci, but still no change...)
Thanks + regards,
Michael

EDIT by Fernando: Unneeded quoted text and empty lines deleted (to save space)

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#4 | RE: Problem with Asmedia + Marvell 9215 S-ATA Controller - Running in IDE-Mode datum

Thu Feb 19, 2015 8:55 am (Last edited: Thu Feb 19, 2015 8:58 am)

Zitat von mike49 im Beitrag #3
Both controllers (ASMedia + Highpoint) are set to S-ATA, but windows recognizes them as ATA/IDE controllers.

That is absolute normal. All IDE, SATA and AHCI Controllers are "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers".

Zitat
(Just changed driver for ASM-Controller to msahci, but still no change...)

What did you expect? According the Device Manager your storage configuration seems to be fine.
By the way: Where is/are your optical drive(s) connected?

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#5 | RE: Problem with Asmedia + Marvell 9215 S-ATA Controller - Running in IDE-Mode datum

Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:28 am

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #4
What did you expect? According the Device Manager your storage configuration seems to be fine.
By the way: Where is/are your optical drive(s) connected?

Well, i did not expect those 4 ATA-Channels running in Ultra-DMA mode which are provided by the 2 additional controllers.
Or to put it other way round: The second SSD (Crucial M4, s. first screenshot) is connected to (onboard shared) e-SATA (ASMedia) but only gives me ~ 150 MB/s instead of ~ 500 MB/s if it were running in SATA3 mode. Boot-ROM of ASMedia posts SATA3 mode for connected devices btw.

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #4
What did you expect? According the Device Manager your storage configuration seems to be fine.
By the way: Where is/are your optical drive(s) connected?

Optical drive is a Sony BD-Writer connected via USB (do not use it that often so that is fine).
This is an own build sitting in a Fractal Design Define Mini and acts as desktop-PC + NAS for my LAN. More flexible than dedicated NAS-devices for my usage. Board used is this one:

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z77%20Ext...=Specifications

One of the few mATX-Boards with 8 SATA-Connectors.

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#6 | RE: Problem with Asmedia + Marvell 9215 S-ATA Controller - Running in IDE-Mode datum

Thu Feb 19, 2015 10:56 am (Last edited: Thu Feb 19, 2015 10:56 am)

Zitat von mike49 im Beitrag #5
Well, i did not expect those 4 ATA-Channels running in Ultra-DMA mode which are provided by the 2 additional controllers.

What happens, when you replace the generic MS AHCI driver by the AHCI drivers, which are provided by the manufacturers of the related SATA Controllers (ASMedia and Marvell)?
Another request: Please post the DeviceIDs of the ASMedia and Marvell SATA Controllers (right click > "Properties" > "Details" > "Property" > "HardwareIDs").

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#7 | RE: Problem with Asmedia + Marvell 9215 S-ATA Controller - Running in IDE-Mode datum

Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:54 am (Last edited: Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:54 am)

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #6
What happens, when you replace the generic MS AHCI driver by the AHCI drivers, which are provided by the manufacturers of the related SATA Controllers (ASMedia and Marvell)?

I already had ASMedia drivers installed (s. screenshot in first post), same problem.

For the Highpoint Rocket 620 (Marvell 9215) I already tried manual installation of 64-bit Win7 drivers (generic Marvell which are linked in this section of the forum; there are no dedicated drivers by Highpoint for this card) but windows refused these drivers.

Will come back this evening with the requested Device-IDs (I'm at work right now...)

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#8 | RE: Problem with Asmedia + Marvell 9215 S-ATA Controller - Running in IDE-Mode datum

Thu Feb 19, 2015 8:25 pm

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #6

Another request: Please post the DeviceIDs of the ASMedia and Marvell SATA Controllers (right click > "Properties" > "Details" > "Property" > "HardwareIDs").

ASMedia 106 (with driver installed):

Highpoint Rocket 620 (Marvell 9125 with msahci, did not find any other working driver for this):

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#9 | RE: Problem with Asmedia + Marvell 9215 S-ATA Controller - Running in IDE-Mode datum

Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:49 pm

@ mike49:
Thanks for the DeviceIDs of both SATA AHCI Controllers.
I don't have any idea, why the Device Manager still shows 4 ATA Channels, although all IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers are AHCI ones.
Please check, if any drives are connected with them, and if yes, which ones.

Zitat von mike49 im Beitrag #8
Highpoint Rocket 620 (Marvell 9125 with msahci, did not find any other working driver for this):

I found a suitable, but old driver for this Marvell AHCI Controller. Which architecture (32/64bit) do you need?

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#10 | RE: Problem with Asmedia + Marvell 9215 S-ATA Controller - Running in IDE-Mode datum

Thu Feb 19, 2015 10:06 pm

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #9
@ mike49:
Thanks for the DeviceIDs of both SATA AHCI Controllers.
I don't have any idea, why the Device Manager still shows 4 ATA Channels, although all IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers are AHCI ones.

Yes, that is exactly my problem.

Meanwhile I think that my Windows gave wrong ClassGuid to the controllers, see here:

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/driverssup...-class-guid.htm

Both controllers have classguid for 'HDC 4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318 Hard drive controllers' whereas drivers are for this guid:
SCSIAdapter 4D36E97B-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318 SCSI and RAID controllers

I am quite sure that this is the reason, drivers do not install. I already tried changing classguid in windows registry, but no luck so far (just started...)

Zitat
Please check, if any drives are connected with them, and if yes, which ones

It's 3 internal drives + (optional) 1 external drive (via e-SATA) and they all run in U-DMA Mode connected to those 4 ATA channels (see screenshot in first post)

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #9
@ mike49:
I found a suitable, but old driver for this Marvell AHCI Controller. Which architecture (32/64bit) do you need?

It's a 64-bit Windows 7

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#11 | RE: Problem with Asmedia + Marvell 9215 S-ATA Controller - Running in IDE-Mode datum

Thu Feb 19, 2015 10:33 pm (Last edited: Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:40 pm)

Zitat von mike49 im Beitrag #10
It's a 64-bit Windows 7

Attached is the 64bit Marvell AHCI driver v1.0.0.27 WHQL:

Fernando has attached files to this post

Marvell AHCI driver v1.0.0.27 WHQL.rar

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#12 | RE: Problem with Asmedia + Marvell 9215 S-ATA Controller - Running in IDE-Mode datum

Sat Feb 21, 2015 1:06 am (Last edited: Sat Feb 21, 2015 1:07 am)

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #11
Attached is the 64bit Marvell AHCI driver v1.0.0.27 WHQL:

Thank you!

Now I have only 2 unwanted ATA-Channels provided by ASMedia Controller, all other 8 drives run in S-ATA mode:

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#13 | RE: Problem with Asmedia + Marvell 9215 S-ATA Controller - Running in IDE-Mode datum

Sat Feb 21, 2015 1:11 am

Zitat von mike49 im Beitrag #12
Now I have only 2 unwanted ATA-Channels provided by ASMedia Controller, all other 8 drives run in S-ATA mode:

Which ASMedia AHCI driver are you using?

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#14 | RE: Problem with Asmedia + Marvell 9215 S-ATA Controller - Running in IDE-Mode datum

Sat Feb 21, 2015 1:21 am (Last edited: Sat Feb 21, 2015 1:21 am)

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #13
Which ASMedia AHCI driver are you using?

I used the one provided by ASRock which seems to have caused the problem.

Just switched to newest 2.0.9.1 (also linked here) and everything is fine now:

All 10 drives running in S-ATA Mode, finally

Thanks again for your great support!

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#15 | RE: [Solved] Problem with Asmedia + Marvell 9215 S-ATA Controller - Running in IDE-Mode datum

Sat Feb 21, 2015 9:38 am (Last edited: Sat Feb 21, 2015 9:39 am)

Zitat von mike49 im Beitrag #14
All 10 drives running in S-ATA Mode, finally !

Ok, it's fine, that your problems could be solved at least.

Enjoy your optimized system!

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