So I used Intel RST and created my RAID on my win10(idk how but the app says it doesnt support win10 after i clicked into system requirements), but soon I found out my hdd is missing in windows explorer, even though I can still see it in RST for some reasons. I wonder why this would happened, also I am not sure what type of RAID did I create.

I have a motherboard with a Z170 chipset and I have two NVMe drives. I want them to be configured as RAID1 drives.

I tried installing RSTe NVMe 4.5.0.2125, but the message was "This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software."

I tried installing RST RAID 15.2.0.1020 and the RST from the Gigabyte website (motherboard is a GA-Z170X-UD3), but when I run it there are no NVMe drives connected: https://i.imgsafe.org/de500979f8.jpg

In Computer Management, I have two disks. Computer Management in Windows 10 shows this, but one disk has the OS, the other has the system partition: https://i.imgsafe.org/de477d4eaf.png

How can I get these two NVMe drives into RAID1? It is no problem reinstalling windows from scratch as this is a new build.

There are devices converting USB to ETHERNET, if I plug my laptop's USB 3.0 to a modem or switch, can I have a second ip on my laptop? For example, can I transfer files from one network through USB, and at the same time playing counter strike multiplayer from fast ethernet connected to modem? One with 192.168.1.x and other 192.168.1.y?

I also have a second question:

I built a network with:

• (laptop) <--- wireless 54 Mbit/s ----> (modem) <-------  100 MBit/s  ------> (desktop pc),
• it can ping-pong 100MB data between laptop and desktop in 40-45 seconds.
• when I plug 10/100 Mbit ethernet cable between laptop and modem, it ping-pongs in 12-15 seconds so it is 3x the speed of wireless

is the 3x speed originated from 100/54 speed rate ~2 multiplied by: (cable packet loss ratio) / (wireless packet loss ratio)?

If I buy a gigabit(1000 Mbit/s)-switch(both computers support gigabit ethernet), will it have even less packet loss than fast ethernet(100MBit) and in the end would I have more than 10x (lets say 12x) bandwidth increase?

My system configuration:

- GA-Z170-HD3P rev 1.0 Bios F6d (beta)

- I5 6600K CPU

- 4+4 GB – G.Skill F4-3000C15

- SM951 – 128GB M.2 AHCI SSD drive.

- 2x 500GB HDD (WD5002AALX) on a RAID 0 array on ports 0 and 1.

- Thermaltake 450W high efficiency power supply.

- Graphics – Intel 530 internal graphics.

I’ve installed Windows 7 HP 64 with these BIOS configurations:

- SATA=RAID

- OS=Other

- Storage Boot and PCI device to UEFI only

- XHCI Hand off to disabled

Problems:

- Can't boot Lubuntu 

- On Windows, everything is working fine, except that when it enters “Sleep mode” it doesn’t wake up. The HDD led flashes continuously but it doesn’t wake up. Even the reset button doesn’t work. The only solution is to press the power button until it shuts down.

To find the problem, I’ve tested with these configurations:

First test:

I’ve detached the two 500GB HDD RAID 0 array disks.

BIOS configurations:

- SATA=AHCI

- OS=Other

- Storage Boot and PCI device to UEFI only

- XHCI Hand off to disabled

Booting Windows 7 HP or Lubuntu 16.04 64 from the SM951 AHCI M.2 drive, Windows 7 HP 64 and Lubuntu 16.04 64 recovered from sleep without problems.

Second test:

I’ve detached the SM951 AHCI M.2 drive and the two 500GB HDD RAID 0 array disks and attached one blank WD 500G HDD.

BIOS configurations:

- SATA=RAID

- OS=Other

- Storage Boot and PCI device to UEFI only

- XHCI Hand off to disabled

In this WD 500G HDD I’ve installed:

- Windows 7 HP 64

- Windows 10 Pro 64

- Lubuntu 16.04 64

All them recovered from sleep mode without problem.

I’ve attached the two 500GB HDD RAID 0 array disks, and again, all them recovered from sleep mode without problem.

Then I’ve attached the SM951 AHCI M.2 drive and only Windows 10 Pro 64, sometimes, recovered from sleep mode without problem. Windows 7 HP 64 and Lubuntu 16.04 64 always failed to recover.

Something changed on the system that, only attaching the SM951 AHCI M.2 drive, Windows 7 HP 64 and Lubuntu 16.04 64 always failed to recover from sleep, even if they were booting from another drive.

Third test:

I’ve detached the two 500GB HDD RAID 0 array disks.

BIOS configurations:

- SATA=AHCI

- OS=Other

- Storage Boot and PCI device to UEFI only

- XHCI Hand off to disabled

Booted from the WD 500G HDD, and with the SM951 AHCI M.2 drive attached or not, Windows 7 HP 64, Windows 10 Pro 64 and Lubuntu 16.04 64 recovered from sleep without problems.

Summary:

- With SATA=AHCI and SM951 AHCI M.2 drive, Windows 7 HP 64 and Lubuntu 16.04 64 always recover from sleep, and Lubuntu 16.04 64 does boot from the SM951 AHCI M.2 drive

- With SATA=RAID and SM951 AHCI M.2 drive, Windows 7 HP 64 and Lubuntu 16.04 64 always failed to recover from sleep, even if they were booting from another drive and Lubuntu 16.04 64 doesn’t even boot from the SM951 AHCI M.2 drive.

Conclusion:

- SATA=RAID and SM951 AHCI M.2 drive have big issues and consequences.

I’ve searched and fond that this problem is very common on Skylake motherboards and that the manufactures are releasing BIOS updates to fix the problem, so I decided to install F6d (beta). It didn’t change anything to the sleep problem (and created a new one as the system freezes when trying to save or load a BIOS profile).

I’m very disappointed with my new GA-Z170-HD3P. The performance gain with the SM951 AHCI M.2 can’t be noticed when compared with my five year old GA-Z68A-D3-B3 system that has a Samsung 850 Pro SSD.

Boot times are the same and POST and shutting down are even longer.

I’ve asked for help at Gigabyte esupport and was frustrating. Those who answer the post, keep asking me things that was on my description and they are not technically prepared to even understand the problem.

I've tested my SM951 CrystalDiskMark5 and the results are impressive. 1.5 times faster on write and 3.5 times faster on read, so I was expecting to have a much faster boot.

However, my boot time on SM951 takes, from pressing the power button to Skype log in, 41 seconds.

I've cloned my SM951 to the 850 PRO and boot time, from pressing the power button to Skype log in, it takes 42 seconds.

How to explain?

On a normal use, I didn't notice any difference between both.

I've already bought a new PNY CS1311-120GB to replace the SM951. Hope someday the issue with the SM951 and RAID gets set in order to work properly.

My raid showed as degraded as one of the drives became unplugged.  I plugged the drive back in, and now it shows REBUILD at startup, and says it needs to be rebuilt from within the OS, but I cannot find the utility to launch within windows 7.   What am I doing wrong?  Where do I find it?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

I have searched Intel's site as well as multiple others, after purchasing an N3700-based (Braswell) mainboard.  The N-Series Pentiums are SoCs; there are graphics drivers, a form of USB3 drivers, and several other installs --but no SATA controller/AHCI driver.  I would much prefer to use Intel drivers than Microsoft's basic AHCI driver if one is available, even just the desktop/workstation driver, but I don't wish to break an OS install, and of course, Windows warns that Intel RST drivers may not be compatible.

Has anyone else tested this, and, what is Intel's position on what drivers should be used?

Hi,

Yesterday i've been trying all day to accelerate my harddrive using my 20GB SDD.

So I successfully installed the Intel Rapid Storage Technology software and was able to change my SSD into a caching device.

My SDD model is KINGSTON SMS151S324G

Hard Drive is TOSHIBA MQ01ABF050

But the problem is that everytime i try to accelerate my hard drive I get the same error: "An unknown error has occured while an operation was in progress. The operation could not be completed."

If I then check my windows log files IRTS_UI gives me the following error: "Error: Action failure, Action request timed out DiskSetCacheMode."

While browsing some people found a solution by shrinking their main partition by about 20MB. This however does not solve the problem for me. I Keep getting the same error.

All my drivers are up to date and I am using the latetst RST software. 

Note: I also changed my BIOS - stettings to work as RAID, so this cannot be the problem either.

Hope somebody can help me.

Vincent

I've spent over a 40 hours on this. I need to increase the size of my raid 1 array. I bought 2 WD 1TB drives to replace my 500Gb on a dell studio 435t. I first rebuilt the system on the new drives following the Intel instructions on increasing the array size using the old Intel Matrix storage 8.5 but had windows errors--  loss of desktop search, windows update wouldn't work etc. I found out that had to do with my new drives being Advanced Format drives. I couldn't fix the windows errors on the new mirror, so I started again, and reinstalled the old drives. I then applied the necessary hot fixes to my old smaller array and downloaded the newest raid control software, Intel Rapid Storage. 9.6 all which was said to fix the windows errors the next time around. Then I tried the rebuild again.....this time...

No matter what I do, Intel RST won't rebuild from the old drive to the new one. After many attempts, it rebuilds just fine btw the two older drives, but when I swap one of those with the new larger WD drive, I just get an error: ("An unknown error occurred while an operation was in progress the operation could not be completed"). I even cloned the drive using Norton Ghost, but then the problem is that RST won't create the mirror on to the second drive, it says "An unknown error occurred during the volume creation process". 

PLEASE HELP!!!

Hi,

I have a x99 motherboard and, among the many system devices, some of them have driver version 10.1.2.19 from 1/26/2016, but I found an upgraded version 10.1.1.35 from 8/17/2016. Is it the lastest and recommended? Should I upgrade or not? Why the smaller version number anyway?

A little bit of history. - I have a sever with 4 HDD and RAID10. Some years back these 4 HDDs were all 1 TB each but over time i have changed some with one of them now a 2TB WD drive. Just recently, Intel RST reported that the Array is broken with one of the disk showing failed on the intel RST console and gave the option to reset disk. I clicked on reset disk and the Array began to Rebuild and after that everything seemed fine
.

The next day it displayed degraded volume with port 2 failed

Next day i got another HDD a 4TB WD HDD and replaced the failed drive. The moment i boot the system, the Intel matrix storage manager discovered the non RAID member disk and suggested i add this disk to the RAID member which i did.  And the RAID volume status says Rebuild

However when i boot into windows (svr2008 r2) the Intel RST refuses to give me option to rebuild or even start the rebuild automatically.

After some research online I later installed newer version  (15.2.0.1020) but still this did not solve the problem.

I did appreciate any help to solve this

Qs. is this problem as a result of 4TB non- support? is the ROM to old for 4TB ? is the intel RST misbehaving, is there a bug somewhere?

Hello,

I get an error that iaStorB.sys is missing after using an mdt installation image.

Can somebody tell me where I can download needed version 3.7.0.1092.

I already tried the same file with an newer version from image models that work, but that didnt help.

Thanks for your help!

Best

Sascha

Hi All,

  I have purchased a Dell powerEdge T20 rack server recently with 1TB SATA and bought another SATA of 1TB too. I have tried to configure raid1 array with the Intel Rapid storage raid controller after enabling RAID ON mode in the configuration. Then I have installed Centos 6.5 from a bootable USB and changed the boot order to 'Intel Volume' (i.e harddisk boot). But after reboot a black screen appears and it shows as 'Hard disk error' .  I have entered to the raid configuration utility by pressing CTRL + I and the raid array was showing as "Initialize" state. Then I have selected the ' reset to non RAID disks' options and booted Centos 6.5 from the hard disk, it has booted without any issues. Don't Intel rapid storage @controller have any supported drivers for any Centos versions? What is the issue? Any ideas? Ideas appreciated.  Thank you!

Hi All,

I have purchased a Dell powerEdge T20 rack server recently with 1TB SATA and bought another SATA of 1TB too. I have tried to configure raid1 array with the Intel Rapid storage raid controller after enabling RAID ON mode in the configuration. Then I have installed Centos 6.5 from a bootable USB and changed the boot order to 'Intel Volume' (i.e harddisk boot). But after reboot a black screen appears and it shows as 'Hard disk error' .  I have entered to the raid configuration utility by pressing CTRL + I and the raid array was showing as "Initialize" state. Then I have selected the ' reset to non RAID disks' options and booted Centos 6.5 from the hard disk, it has booted without any issues. What is the issue? is it because of driver supporting issues on Centos? Any ideas? Ideas appreciated.

Thank you!

There are devices converting USB to ETHERNET, if I plug my laptop's USB 3.0 to a modem or switch, can I have a second ip on my laptop? For example, can I transfer files from one network through USB, and at the same time playing counter strike multiplayer from fast ethernet connected to modem? One with 192.168.1.x and other 192.168.1.y?

I also have a second question:

I built a network with:

• (laptop) <--- wireless 54 Mbit/s ----> (modem) <-------  100 MBit/s  ------> (desktop pc),
• it can ping-pong 100MB data between laptop and desktop in 40-45 seconds.
• when I plug 10/100 Mbit ethernet cable between laptop and modem, it ping-pongs in 12-15 seconds so it is 3x the speed of wireless

is the 3x speed originated from 100/54 speed rate ~2 multiplied by: (cable packet loss ratio) / (wireless packet loss ratio)?

If I buy a gigabit(1000 Mbit/s)-switch(both computers support gigabit ethernet), will it have even less packet loss than fast ethernet(100MBit) and in the end would I have more than 10x (lets say 12x) bandwidth increase?

I'm receiving unknown error during install of chipset update 10.1.1.14 I currently have version 10.0.10586.0 installed. My system model is EL1852G brand is emachines OS is Win10. These are the log files

mi laptop no reconoce el discoduro al momento de formatearla con w7, me solicita unos driver, este es el nombre del driver alguien me ayuda donde descargarlo

i need driver ValleyView 6-port SATA AHCI for windows 7 32 and 64 bit, i need held!!

Hello,

I am setting up an asus z10pe-d16 ws using the intel RAID - On a WIn 10 Pro X64 System -

Z10PE-D16 WS | Motherboards | ASUS USA

I have the latest Chipset and 'C610 Intel RAID' drivers on the website and they arent working for me.

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/Z10PED16_WS/HelpDesk_Download/

My installation of RSTe looks like its working but the tray Icon permanently says 'RSTe Service' not running, and the message is in fact correct, even though I installed the package, there is no windows service I can see for Intel RSTe.  On my other machine I have the Intel RST version, and everything works like a champ - So before I delve into long exploratory process, my first instinct was to get the latest driver, as that often times resolves most problems.

I cannot find a driver for "Intel RSTe Sata sSata" on Intel's site, I see the regular RST driver and an RSTE NVME.

So my question is 2 fold, Any suggestion on how to get the service to install?

and as far as the drivers go,

Is there an updated driver for me? If so please point me to it.

Doesn't seem from reading I can use the standard RST driver. Is that correct?

Can I use the RSTE NVME?

If its relevant, I have the Sata controller on which I want to use the RAID in raid mode, and the Raid array is working, despite the fact there is no service running.

Thanks All, first time with the 'enterprise' level IRSTe

Mike

Hello, so for over a month I have been struggling with this one. If i install the last driver for my ATA controller (14.8) I lost the Sata3 performance. Yep, just like that.
I returned my first SSD to the store and received a brandnew one. New windows 10 install, and the problem persists.
System SPECS:
Z87 Stinger EVGA
i5 - 4690

2x4 GB Corsair @ 1600mhz.
GTX 770 video card.

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Any help?

Hi All,

I have purchased a Dell powerEdge T20 rack server recently with 1TB SATA and bought another SATA of 1TB too. I have tried to configure raid1 array with the Intel Rapid storage raid controller after enabling RAID ON mode in the configuration. Then I have installed Centos 6.5 from a bootable USB and changed the boot order to 'Intel Volume' (i.e harddisk boot). But after reboot a black screen appears and it shows as 'Hard disk error' .  I have entered to the raid configuration utility by pressing CTRL + I and the raid array was showing as "Initialize" state. Then I have selected the ' reset to non RAID disks' options and booted Centos 6.5 from the hard disk, it has booted without any issues. What is the issue? is it because of driver supporting issues on Centos? Any ideas? Ideas appreciated.

Thank you!

I have a Dell XPS 8100 that I purchased about 8 years ago. I ordered it with RAID 1 (mirroring) and a 1.5TB system disk. The system (OS) drive is the RAID drive. About a year ago drives started to fail, which I expected. I would replace the failed drive (port 0 or 1) and log on as an administrator and run the GUI for IRST. It would say there is a blank disk and offer to rebuild the array. I would say yes and over the next 24 hours or so it would rebuild the array. Fine. But a about a year ago drives started failing pretty frequently. In the last few months they have been failing at a rate of about one a month. I was talking to my supervisor at work about this (we are IT guys) and he suggested maybe the drives are not really failing but the IRST controller is having a problem and is giving me false information. He suggested bringing one of the "failed" drives to work and testing it. Today I brought the most recently failed disk to work and plugged it into my Startech USB drive dock. I am able to access it with no problem. Since it is mirrored it behaves just as if it were the only drive, with the same structure as a single drive in a Windows 7 system. I can open and access my user folder and can open files.

I noticed that there is a driver update for the IRST on my system. I was reluctant to install this before as I was afraid if something went wrong I would lose the whole array but if I can access the drive I brought to work I suppose I have a backup of everything.

Does anyone have any thoughts or advice on this?

Thanks,

Don