Intel RST 11.5.0.1207 WHQL

[slickric21]

Cant it just be disabled in services ??

[AbjectBlitz]

Originally Posted by AbjectBlitz

I just cant get these to work. I've updated Raid ROM to 11.5.0.1414 with latest bios, and when I instal RST 11.5.0.1207 in RAID mode it just hangs on windows logo.

Tried AHCI and it bluescreens and reboots. I have changed the registry to enable ahci to no avail.

If I use RST 10.8.0.1003 everything works fine.

What gives?

Managed to get it working, had to upgrade the firmware on my Vertex2 SSD.

[John_M]

Hi all.

May I ask what might a simple question? Where are you guys getting the RST RAID drivers (11.5.0.1207 WHQL) from? When I d/l them from Intel I get the AHCI version (iaStorA.sys, iaStorF.sys, etc), not the RAID (iaStor.sys) ones. What am I doing wrong?

Do I need to update my RAID ROM? If so, how do I do that?

Thanks for the help!
Cheers
John

[Agent-A01]

Originally Posted by John_M

Hi all.

May I ask what might a simple question? Where are you guys getting the RST RAID drivers (11.5.0.1207 WHQL) from? When I d/l them from Intel I get the AHCI version (iaStorA.sys, iaStorF.sys, etc), not the RAID (iaStor.sys) ones. What am I doing wrong?

Do I need to update my RAID ROM? If so, how do I do that?

Thanks for the help!
Cheers
John

Just download them, go to device manager, go to update and where you have to browse to the folder, and at some point you will see have disk, you click that, click intel raid controller, browse to the raid floppy folder, and choose the iastor one.

[John_M]

Thanks Agent-A01.

I think what threw me was that in past versions I didn't need to do "have disk" bit. It seems that the files have changed names so maybe that's the reason.

Anyways it's sort now.

Cheers

[Agent-A01]

Just a heads up, 11.5.2.xxx is out and fixes the problems with previous whql

[scandalous]

Originally Posted by Agent-A01

Just a heads up, 11.5.2.xxx is out and fixes the problems with previous whql

Thanks for the heads up!

Link to anyone who wants them: http://www.station-drivers.com/page/intel%20raid.htm
They are called 11.5.2.1001 WHQL

[GhostXL]

Originally Posted by scandalous

Thanks for the heads up!

Link to anyone who wants them: http://www.station-drivers.com/page/intel%20raid.htm
They are called 11.5.2.1001 WHQL

These perform better for my Corsair Force GT RAID0 setup by about 12-20 megs more in Bench32 on a 1 gig run. I'm getting around 1087 meg transfers now, compared to 1050-1070ish on the last set. I "should" be pulling around 1110 megs according to specs, but this is the closest I've seen to that.

RST keeps getting better on this end.

[tsunami231]

these drivers seem to of been pulled from intel site

[Agent-A01]

Originally Posted by GhostXL

These perform better for my Corsair Force GT RAID0 setup by about 12-20 megs more in Bench32 on a 1 gig run. I'm getting around 1087 meg transfers now, compared to 1050-1070ish on the last set. I "should" be pulling around 1110 megs according to specs, but this is the closest I've seen to that.

RST keeps getting better on this end.

Make sure to have latest 12.5 raid rom for trim functionality, also some improvements. Also slight improvement in reads.

Originally Posted by tsunami231

these drivers seem to of been pulled from intel site

The older 12.5.0 were pulled, this new whql was never added to intels site.

[GhostXL]

Originally Posted by Agent-A01

Make sure to have latest 12.5 raid rom for trim functionality, also some improvements. Also slight improvement in reads.



The older 12.5.0 were pulled, this new whql was never added to intels site.

Ahh yeah, I checked to see if TRIM is running and it is. The Corsair Force GT's actually can do this on a hardware level.

I got - DisableDeleteNotify = 0 (Windows TRIM commands are enabled) in return. So I actually didn't have to update the RAID ROM.

Others definitely will if their SSD's cant do TRIM on a hardware level though.

[AbjectBlitz]

Originally Posted by scandalous

Thanks for the heads up!

Link to anyone who wants them: http://www.station-drivers.com/page/intel%20raid.htm
They are called 11.5.2.1001 WHQL

These only work for me with AHCI in the Bios, When I use RAID which I have to for my Radi0 games drive, I get stuck on Windows logo during boot.

Back to 11.2.0.1006 which work fine in RAID mode.

[Agent-A01]

Originally Posted by GhostXL

Ahh yeah, I checked to see if TRIM is running and it is. The Corsair Force GT's actually can do this on a hardware level.

I got - DisableDeleteNotify = 0 (Windows TRIM commands are enabled) in return. So I actually didn't have to update the RAID ROM.

Others definitely will if their SSD's cant do TRIM on a hardware level though.

having disable delete notify saying trim is enabled, it doesnt actually mean its working. someone did a test with these sets of whql and trim only worked with the latest rom. to rephrase, trim isnt actually being used by the drives, just the os has it enabled.

also, im using 2 agility 3s which is the same sandforce controller, so you would not get trim on those drives without latest raid rom. garbage collection is run on the controller itself,not trim.

[Agent-A01]

Originally Posted by AbjectBlitz

These only work for me with AHCI in the Bios, When I use RAID which I have to for my Radi0 games drive, I get stuck on Windows logo during boot.

Back to 11.2.0.1006 which work fine in RAID mode.

how are you installing these? after i installed it( you force it to do it in device manager) it wouldnt boot into windows the first time. i reset my pc and then it worked.

[AbjectBlitz]

Originally Posted by Agent-A01

how are you installing these? after i installed it( you force it to do it in device manager) it wouldnt boot into windows the first time. i reset my pc and then it worked.

First I did the setup way.

Then I did a system restore and tried the device manager way selecting my own driver from disk. Made no difference, there seems to be no Raid driver in these? I tried under AHCI but it still only boots 1st time because it is using MS driver on first boot. Then it does the driver update to Intel RST taking drives off and back on and I have to reboot, then it wont boot under AHCI on 2nd boot either.

Weird, 11.2.0.1006 working no problem.

[Agent-A01]

Originally Posted by AbjectBlitz

First I did the setup way.

Then I did a system restore and tried the device manager way selecting my own driver from disk. Made no difference, there seems to be no Raid driver in these? I tried under AHCI but it still only boots 1st time because it is using MS driver. Then it does the driver update automatically taking drives off and back on and I have to reboot, then it wont boot under AHCI either.

Weird, 11.2.0.1006 working no problem.

the raid and the ahci driver are the same. but otherwise about your problem, im not sure.

[AbjectBlitz]

Originally Posted by Agent-A01

the raid and the ahci driver are the same. but otherwise about your problem, im not sure.

I'm banging my head, spent half day trying to get this **** to work but just cant figure out wtf is wrong. I think it is having a problem with my RAID0 games drive yet all the older drivers 11.2 and before work perfectly fine.

I give up. Sticking with 11.2.0.1006 for now.

[Agent-A01]

Originally Posted by AbjectBlitz

I'm banging my head, spent half day trying to get this **** to work but just cant figure out wtf is wrong. I think it is having a problem with my RAID0 games drive yet all the older drivers 11.2 and before work perfectly fine.

I give up. Sticking with 11.2.0.1006 for now.

what raid rom are you using?

i have 2 raid0 drives for os and 2 raid0 drives for games. zero problems

[AbjectBlitz]

Originally Posted by Agent-A01

what raid rom are you using?

i have 2 raid0 drives for os and 2 raid0 drives for games. zero problems

Using ROM 11.5.0.1414

My main drive is a OCZ Vertex 2 with latest firmware.