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Hello,
I have an Asus P5QL-EM motherboard and no floppy drive.
During the installation, I skipped the SATA; in the BIOS it was configured as IDE.
At startup, it briefly indicates no hard disk detected because it is connected via SATA, but it has been working this way for 3 years.
Today, I decided to install the SATA controller without reinstalling Windows. After a bit of trouble, I managed to do it, and in the Device Manager, the driver for the ATAPI IDE controller, which was a generic Windows one, is now the Intel iaStor.sys.
Of course, I enabled AHCI in the BIOS first and then installed iATA89-cd to fine-tune everything, which then became compatible with the system.
I launched HD Tach and noticed that it didn’t change the performance: still a transfer speed of 210Mb/s, an access time of 15ms, and an average read speed of 61Mb/s.
In the Device Manager, the hard drive drivers are disk.sys and Part Mgr.sys.
Whereas for the CD-ROM, I gained an unsigned ArcSoft driver.
Previously, in the ICH10 controllers, I had controller No. 2 with 2 serial ATA ports and No. 1 with 4 serial ATA ports “driven by Windows.”
I only replaced the No. 1, and upon restarting, I only had that one left, which seems normal to me.
So, should I change the SATA port on the motherboard to see? Should I update the driver? Or is it simply normal that only the controller driver changes and not the disk driver?
If anyone has any explanations, they would be welcome.
Thanks, see you later
PS: I didn’t do this to gain speed but because I had a freezing issue during file transfers and haven’t found out why. I might still have it; I haven't tested yet.
I have an Asus P5QL-EM motherboard and no floppy drive.
During the installation, I skipped the SATA; in the BIOS it was configured as IDE.
At startup, it briefly indicates no hard disk detected because it is connected via SATA, but it has been working this way for 3 years.
Today, I decided to install the SATA controller without reinstalling Windows. After a bit of trouble, I managed to do it, and in the Device Manager, the driver for the ATAPI IDE controller, which was a generic Windows one, is now the Intel iaStor.sys.
Of course, I enabled AHCI in the BIOS first and then installed iATA89-cd to fine-tune everything, which then became compatible with the system.
I launched HD Tach and noticed that it didn’t change the performance: still a transfer speed of 210Mb/s, an access time of 15ms, and an average read speed of 61Mb/s.
In the Device Manager, the hard drive drivers are disk.sys and Part Mgr.sys.
Whereas for the CD-ROM, I gained an unsigned ArcSoft driver.
Previously, in the ICH10 controllers, I had controller No. 2 with 2 serial ATA ports and No. 1 with 4 serial ATA ports “driven by Windows.”
I only replaced the No. 1, and upon restarting, I only had that one left, which seems normal to me.
So, should I change the SATA port on the motherboard to see? Should I update the driver? Or is it simply normal that only the controller driver changes and not the disk driver?
If anyone has any explanations, they would be welcome.
Thanks, see you later
PS: I didn’t do this to gain speed but because I had a freezing issue during file transfers and haven’t found out why. I might still have it; I haven't tested yet.
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RE,
No zero or it's the 1. I may have expressed myself poorly.
In fact, Everest provides: information on location 0.
No zero or it's the 1. I may have expressed myself poorly.
In fact, Everest provides: information on location 0.
Hello
I thought of something else: in the BIOS menu, check if the SATA port of the hard drive is in native IDE mode, maybe that's where it comes from.
I thought of something else: in the BIOS menu, check if the SATA port of the hard drive is in native IDE mode, maybe that's where it comes from.
RE,
Thank you for taking an interest in my case.
In the BIOS, I have activated AHCI; that's the only option I have.
I disabled the Marvell IDE controller, but there is still the Microsoft IDE driver anyway.
I will therefore ask the question differently.
When using AHCI, should the hard drive driver be different than when using IDE?
Furthermore, the ATA/ATAPI IDE controller is indeed the ICH 10 AHCI controller,
but the SCSI and RAID controller is an IDE controller.
Should we also enable RAID?
Thank you for taking an interest in my case.
In the BIOS, I have activated AHCI; that's the only option I have.
I disabled the Marvell IDE controller, but there is still the Microsoft IDE driver anyway.
I will therefore ask the question differently.
When using AHCI, should the hard drive driver be different than when using IDE?
Furthermore, the ATA/ATAPI IDE controller is indeed the ICH 10 AHCI controller,
but the SCSI and RAID controller is an IDE controller.
Should we also enable RAID?
Hello!
You're welcome, I'm trying to do my best!^^
From what I've understood, you want to improve your hard drive's performance. Have you set the SATA mode in the BIOS? What exactly do you want to do?
You're welcome, I'm trying to do my best!^^
From what I've understood, you want to improve your hard drive's performance. Have you set the SATA mode in the BIOS? What exactly do you want to do?
Hi,
I'm trying to improve my performance a bit, because what's the point of having SATA drives if I'm going to run them in IDE mode?
I have obviously set AHCI for my CD-ROM drives and my HDD in the BIOS, and they are recognized as SATA.
The driver for the ATA ATAPI SATA controller is indeed the iastor, but the drivers for the drives seem to be generic (Windows-signed). I would like to know which ones they should be, because I haven't gained any performance.
Moreover, I did this to boost the transfers, but it's worse than before.
I'm trying to improve my performance a bit, because what's the point of having SATA drives if I'm going to run them in IDE mode?
I have obviously set AHCI for my CD-ROM drives and my HDD in the BIOS, and they are recognized as SATA.
The driver for the ATA ATAPI SATA controller is indeed the iastor, but the drivers for the drives seem to be generic (Windows-signed). I would like to know which ones they should be, because I haven't gained any performance.
Moreover, I did this to boost the transfers, but it's worse than before.
And have you installed the SATA drivers for the motherboard properly? If not, go to the website "touslesdrivers.com" in the "my drivers" section.