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• W540 Option SATA (RAID or AHCI), disappeared after the update of the BIOS to 2.05

  W540 20BG001CGE, had 1.05 BIOS and RAID 1 with two 840 Samsung 1 TB EVO works well under Windows 7 - x 64. Do you have one (by lenovo recommended tool update) update BIOS with the Manager to update the bios to 2.05. Update went very well. After the reboot (and load defaults, disabling Intel Rapid Start, boot to BIOS option change the legacy of all first... I recognized the SATA (RAID or AHCI) in BIOS option disappeared. At boot time Intel Matrix Storage Configuration doesnot appear (where you can create RAID etc.).

  Startup then displays message "missing operating system".

  Downgrade BIOS 1.05 impossible, due to ISO file on www.lenovo.com support is not compatible, system message "Lenovo Group Limited - disc system not valid." Replace drive you and then press any key")

  (The link to the ISO file version 1.05 at the bottom of this page of links not a bootable ISO image)

  http://support.Lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?docid=DS039078)

  Also the downgrade to BIOS version 1.08 found here http://www.notebook-driver.com/detail/thinkpad-driver-id-22182/ doesnot work CD also messages "Lenovo Group Limited - invalid system disk - replace... »).

  Rewrite of the BIOS version 2.05 (GNET57WW) doesnot work (says "BIOS update is not necessary").

  Embedded Controller Version GMHT25WW (1.10) ME Firmware Version 9.0.22.1467.

  Anyone has a suggestion of what to try next? Someone has a tip how to recover my RAID controller?

  Thanks and have fun

  
  

• Satellite L30-10 X - need sata\raid drivers for Windows XP

  Need to install the drivers sata\raid for windows XP. Laptops Satellite L30-10 X. Please tell me where I can find it.

  Hello

  Normally, you find that the SATA drivers in display driver package which you can download from the official website of Toshiba... Usually they are placed under the screen driver\SBDrv but I downloaded it and t SATA driver file is :(

  What you can do is download the driver of another model, perhaps Satellite L300D or similar model.

  An alternative you can install Windows XP compatible mode. Go into the BIOS, HDD AHCI mode to the compatible. Then, you don't need a driver.

• Re: Need driver XP SATA/RAID for Satellite Pro U400

  Hi all

  I've searched and searched, but I can't for the life of me find suitable driver to install XP on my machine. It came pre-installed with Vista which is useless to me because of the instability, bugs, just be a poor OS. I got the new laptop for a week now and have not been able to use again, so it would really appreciate someone pointing me in the direction of SATA/RAID drivers for XP.

  Thank you!
  E.g.

  Hello

  The Satellite Pro U400 needs a SATA driver, and you can find it in the Intel Matrix Storage Manager package.

  This storage manager can be downloaded from the European driver Toshiba page (see the series of portable different) or you can also download it from the Intel site.

  The SATA driver must be installed during XP Setup process. You must press the F6 key to include a 3rd party (SATA driver) from the external USB floppy drive.

  If you don t have a floppy drive, then you could create a clean XP CD with SATA driver. NLite freeware software can be useful for these jobs

  My advice is; Google a bit for nLite for more details.

  Good bye

• Need Driver SATA RAID for Windows XP on the Satellite A200-17O

  Hello world

  I bought a Satellite A200-17O. It came with Vista and I want to install XP... but every time I start installation it says "no HDD found". A friend told me, that I need a SATA RAID driver for it, but I can't find some. Can someone help me?

  Hello

  I think that you don t need a SATA or RAID drivers, but the Intel Matrix Storage Manager
  I found this on the page of Intel:
  http://Downloadcenter.Intel.com/Filter_Results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=2101&OS FullName = Windows * + XP + Professional & lang = eng & strOSs = 44 & submit = Go %21

  PS; Searched the forum for similar topics and found this:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=25749&MessageID=94438

  Good luck and best regards

• Can computer M9450F of office - do sata raid?

  If so, how?  I see the sata RAID controller sata under option 1, but can't figure out how to install 2 drives in raid...

  Can anyone help?

  n/m found that the 2 drives should be in sata 1 and sata 2 slots - and of course, with the bios set to plunder.

• ESXi 5.0 U1 could be installed on a SATA drive, but can't the SATA RAID

  This is the case:
  My physical server includes the Intel series E5-2600, Intel C600 (A for SATA) chipsets.
  In the VMware ESXi 5.0 Update 1 Release Notes, I find his support for chipsets Intel C600 and E5-2600.
  So I want to confirm if ESXi 5.0 U1 could be installed in my machine.
  In my test, ESXi 5.0 U1 can be installed with a SATA, but not SATA RAID drive. (Installed by CD)
  What's wrong?
  Waiting for your help.
  Thank you!

  Another feature that is missing in ESXi is caching block... So if you buy a hardware RAID card choose one with a battery to use the cache policy writing and write I/O faster.

• Slow 3ware SATA RAID 9690

  Here's a strange.

  System Specs: ESXi 4.1 with updated oem.tgz for drivers of 3ware, Biostar TA890FXE, AMD Phenom II Black 3.2 ghz, 16 GB RAM, 3ware 9690SA-4i (with battery), Intel 1000GT, boot USB Flash 4 GB disk

  I have two data warehouses using the same 1 TB SATA Samsung Spinpoint F3 1 TB disks:
  (A) 3ware 9690 RAID-5, 4 discs, total capacity of 2.73 tb (2 to & Go 730 Lun, images of comments, primary storage)
  (B) SATA AHCI, 2 disks total capacity 1.81 to (2 x 900 ~ to ISO and random storage Lun)

  When the copy of the RAID to the standard SATA drives, it is doomed fast. But SATA in RAID, the speed is ridiculously slow. It seems to take easily 10 x as much time or more when copying very large files.

  I noticed when I went to copy all my files and images of comments to a data store while I reformatted with a larger block size. Then the copy to roughly 400 GB from A to B, it took less than an hour, perhaps as little as 30 minutes. New B in A, it took 6 hours when I dropped.

  In addition, I have a little bit of reference tool called Parkdale who made drive simple comparative analysis in Windows and have some real numbers to go with my comments in ESXi.

  Option A with SATA RAID = 2.6 MB/s write, 73.7 MB/s reading (Win Server 2003)
  Option B with SATA AHCI = 111.1 MB/s write, 108.1 MB/s Read (Win Server 2000)

  There is certainly something weird here. Any ideas on how to test, what to look for, or what could be the problem?

  You may need to activate the write cache. It wouldn't be activated without the battery. Some controllers to activate the cache because soon the battery is attached and responsible, but not all.

• non - SATA RAID controller for C2100

  Hello. I'm trying to find a non - SATA RAID controller for C2100 but have trouble knowing what controller would correspond. All I can find are RAID controllers.

  Hello jodido74

  The H200 is compatible with the C2100. It has capabilities no RAID for SAS/SATA drives. It's the only option I know.

  Thank you

• need info on sata raid

  Hi all that I have read very post compatible sata raid controller and esxi...

  mi question is... before you buy a controller sata raid I need to tell if the esxi run sata raid

  I try with the sas/sata raid controller and I tested it only: mirror sas: work! mirror sata doesn't work... esxi show 2 sata drive in the mirror but show 2 single drive

  My question is... I want the Assembly a server with sata drive for more space a money economy... is possible? I want to do a server with 4 drive sata 1 TB raid 5 for 3 TB storage avaible in hard

  is possible? RAID controller sata compatible with raid 5 to buy?

  Thank you

  You're welcome, glad we could help.

  You mark your question answers please.

  Thank you very much.

• Advice on the Sata Raid Controller

  Hi all

  After a months long test of ESXi 3.5, now I want to configure a more robust system based on a Dell SC 1420, but with an updated Sata Raid Controller to level.  I need to choose a mid Sata Raid controller price (£120 - £150) but I'm worried about compatibility.

  Can anyone recommend a Sata Raid which will give good performance and is supported with ESXi 3.5

  I don't want to change the configs and others, even if other people seem to have made this summer with success.

  Dave

  Go to www.vm-help.com. (Awesome site of Dave M) You will find a whitebox HCL it as well as Sata controllers. Note that these llisted are not supported by VMware, but have been confirmed to work.

  Nemasis

• ASUS P6T7 WS - SAS and SATA RAID-0 / boot

  
  

  I am trying to determine the optimal configuration of HD to better use
  the 2 x SAS and 6 x SATA connections on the motherboard P6T7.
  I intend to fill all 12 available bays 3.5 "in the Lian Li PC-A77F and want
  to control all devices SATA 12 of the Mo without the use of an expansion card.

  
  

  1. is it effective to use a x 4 SAS to SATA fanout cable to configure a
  equipped with four SATA RAID-0 drives on one SAS channel?

  
  2. is it effective to use a x 4 SAS to SATA fanout cable to connect one
  SATA boot drive drive 1 + + 2 optical drives on one SAS channel data?
  (I realize boot must be BIOS configured via the Marvell SAS host utility)

  
  3. should I stick to a plan 'a channel and a device' and use the add-on controller
  for the SATA device rest four bays?

  
  4. If the answer to ' 3 is in the affirmative, what is the best use of channels 2 x SAS if all the»
  There are SATA devices? (bootable disk. optical media, or just a single SATA drive)

  
  

  Thank you

  1.

  I don't think that it is possible to use this motherboard connector fan-out cable single to multiple disks disk

• MOBO battery died, replaced, went sata/raid drive.

  The computer has win - xp, 32-bit. It had been updated. At sp3. Asus P5wd2 mobo. The system worked very well. The C - mos battery died then. I replaced it. Now, there is only the C:\ drive and a drive partition L:\. It is therefore more H:\ by car (at home). The drive H:\ was the raid set before the battery is out. I don't know how to get it back. When xp came back upward, it is requested to install (recommended) some readers of the unit, so I did. The drive did not return after the reboot.

  I went into the BIOS, go down to 'IDE CONGIGURATION'--> Select "RAID" not "SATA" Press F10, Save and Exit, re - start - found the player.

  Don't go in the RAID itself - just the BIOS!

• ICH10R SATA RAID driver does not load on the Setup

  I have a new computer with a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P motherboard. It allows the disk RAID configuration.

  I have two 1 TB SATA drives installed. I have configured the RAID BIOS

  When I load Windows XP Pro (OEM), I hit F6 to install the RAID driver.

  It is said to put it in the floppy drive and press ENTER. I put the disk in the floppy drive and press ENTER. Nothing happening (not messages) and it asks again to put the floppy in the floppy drive and press ENTER. I'm puzzled. Any help is appreciated.

  Hi MightyMouse,

  As you said, if you can't load the drivers or get the disk to spin there is a hardware conflict / issue. To solve, you can contact the manufacturer or try a BIOS update. If you have any other questions please let us know.

  I hope this helps! Shawn - Support Engineer - MCP, MCDST
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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• Cannot change SATA RAID in AHCI mode in the BIOS.

  Hi, I use Pavilion p6142p Desktop, WIN7, a harddsik.  The SATA BIOS has been set to RAID by the default value of the factory.

  I put two new hard drive in this office, they have different sizes and different rpm speed, I don't want their RAID.  So I tried switch the BIOS SATA AHCI mode, so I can't start the win7, win7 gave me two choices: repair or return, repair is not too.  After I change the BIOS, everything is OK.

  But I have to put all three harddisk in this office. So my question is:

  I use RAID in this PC?

  Do I have to re - install win7?

  ....

  In any case, what should I do?  Thank you.

  d1ad1a,

  RAID will work with unlike devices.  You can always install your new discs and give it a go.

  It seems that the ugly way is going to be your only for the ACHI mode to work. Alternatively, just live with what you have.