Hi
I have a Dell E520 with the most recent Dell BIOS, a Samsung SSD system drive and an Intel ICH8R chipset running in RAID mode and with two non-RAIDed disks. I installed Windows 8 32 bit.
I've done everything I can find to ensure AHCI is enabled, however the Samsung Magician software says it's not. What can I do ?
Further details :
Device Manager reports Intel Desktop/Workstation/Server Express Chipset SATA RAID Controller
Rapid Storage driver 11.7.0.1013 from Intel (19/11/2012)
The Dell custom BIOS doesn't have an AHCI option, however I'm told the RAID option also enables AHCI
My iaStorV and iaStorA registry keys are set to Start 0
When I set my storahci/StartOverride key to 0 it turns back to 3 when I reboot
When I installed Win 8 I used a disk to supply the Intel RAID drivers at install time.
The storage system is running in RAID mode, however Samsung Magician thinks AHCI is disabled and the drive performance is quite a way off what it thinks it should be.
So, the BIOS seems to be on the right setting, however it's like Windows isn't taking advantage of AHCI functionality.
Intel Rapid Storage GUI says that Native Command Queuing : Yes, although I don't know if that means it is doing that, or if it's capable of that.
Any suggestions ?
I have a Dell E520 with the most recent Dell BIOS, a Samsung SSD system drive and an Intel ICH8R chipset running in RAID mode and with two non-RAIDed disks. I installed Windows 8 32 bit.
I've done everything I can find to ensure AHCI is enabled, however the Samsung Magician software says it's not. What can I do ?
Further details :
Device Manager reports Intel Desktop/Workstation/Server Express Chipset SATA RAID Controller
Rapid Storage driver 11.7.0.1013 from Intel (19/11/2012)
The Dell custom BIOS doesn't have an AHCI option, however I'm told the RAID option also enables AHCI
My iaStorV and iaStorA registry keys are set to Start 0
When I set my storahci/StartOverride key to 0 it turns back to 3 when I reboot
When I installed Win 8 I used a disk to supply the Intel RAID drivers at install time.
The storage system is running in RAID mode, however Samsung Magician thinks AHCI is disabled and the drive performance is quite a way off what it thinks it should be.
So, the BIOS seems to be on the right setting, however it's like Windows isn't taking advantage of AHCI functionality.
Intel Rapid Storage GUI says that Native Command Queuing : Yes, although I don't know if that means it is doing that, or if it's capable of that.
Any suggestions ?