AHCI issues

Thought I would try the AHCI option with my hard drive in Vista 64-bit.
Turned on the option in the bios, installed motherboard drivers and
everything seemed to work fine. However, periodically when trying to write
to the drive I would receive an error indicating that the drive was "write
protected." I went back to the bios, turned the option back to IDE and
everything seems to be working fine. Not sure if this is a AHCI
implementation problem on my motheboard (Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P using the
onboard Gigabyte controller) OR a problem with Vista 64-bit. Any thoughts?

Maratonmannen
Sat Dec 29 23:52:00 PST 2007

Maybe you have to install drivers for AHCI?
I have Vista x64 on a machine with AHCI option enabled, but it was enabled
from start and no problem to install Vista. Drivers for AHCI are inbox Vista.
If you enable AHCI after the Vista install, you may have to install the
Intel Matrix Storage Manager.


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"Netman" wrote:

> Thought I would try the AHCI option with my hard drive in Vista 64-bit.
> Turned on the option in the bios, installed motherboard drivers and
> everything seemed to work fine. However, periodically when trying to write
> to the drive I would receive an error indicating that the drive was "write
> protected." I went back to the bios, turned the option back to IDE and
> everything seems to be working fine. Not sure if this is a AHCI
> implementation problem on my motheboard (Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P using the
> onboard Gigabyte controller) OR a problem with Vista 64-bit. Any thoughts?
>
>

Netman
Sun Dec 30 11:58:39 PST 2007

Thanks for the suggestion. I did, in fact, install Gigabyte drivers. Must
admit that this could be a Gigabyte issue. Haven't tried it using the Intel
chipset SATA controller and Matrix Storage Manager.


"Maratonmannen" <Maratonmannen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1F82352F-456E-495F-A8FD-66F6AA6F0CC3@microsoft.com...
> Maybe you have to install drivers for AHCI?
> I have Vista x64 on a machine with AHCI option enabled, but it was enabled
> from start and no problem to install Vista. Drivers for AHCI are inbox
> Vista.
> If you enable AHCI after the Vista install, you may have to install the
> Intel Matrix Storage Manager.
>
>
> --
> Asus P5WDG2 WS Pro (i975X Express)
> Coreâ?¢ 2 Extreme X6800
> RAPTOR 2x150 GB RAID 0
> 4GB DDR2 800MHz
> GeForce 8800GTX
> Enermax 1000W 75A@+12V
> LAN 100/100
> XP x64 dualboot Vista x64
>
>
> "Netman" wrote:
>
>> Thought I would try the AHCI option with my hard drive in Vista 64-bit.
>> Turned on the option in the bios, installed motherboard drivers and
>> everything seemed to work fine. However, periodically when trying to
>> write
>> to the drive I would receive an error indicating that the drive was
>> "write
>> protected." I went back to the bios, turned the option back to IDE and
>> everything seems to be working fine. Not sure if this is a AHCI
>> implementation problem on my motheboard (Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P using the
>> onboard Gigabyte controller) OR a problem with Vista 64-bit. Any
>> thoughts?
>>
>>

Theo
Sun Dec 30 13:37:26 PST 2007

Actually the issue is between Intel and Microsoft. Intel is=20
the owner of the AHCI project, but Microsoft has not kept=20
it's operating systems up to date to cope with the AHCI=20
standard.

If you really want something to get heart burn over, try=20
installing with a SATA optical drive. If you search the=20
internet you will find that some hardware won't work and=20
other hardware will. So, it's a crap shoot as to whether=20
you can install a system on drives with the controller set=20
to AHCI.

You can thank Intel and Microsoft for this can of worms!!!


Netman wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion. I did, in fact, install Gigabyte drivers.=20
> Must admit that this could be a Gigabyte issue. Haven't tried it using =

> the Intel chipset SATA controller and Matrix Storage Manager.
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> "Maratonmannen" <Maratonmannen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in=20
> message news:1F82352F-456E-495F-A8FD-66F6AA6F0CC3@microsoft.com...
>> Maybe you have to install drivers for AHCI?
>> I have Vista x64 on a machine with AHCI option enabled, but it was=20
>> enabled
>> from start and no problem to install Vista. Drivers for AHCI are inbox=
=20
>> Vista.
>> If you enable AHCI after the Vista install, you may have to install th=
e
>> Intel Matrix Storage Manager.
>>
>>
>> --=20
>> Asus P5WDG2 WS Pro (i975X Express)
>> Core=E2=84=A2 2 Extreme X6800
>> RAPTOR 2x150 GB RAID 0
>> 4GB DDR2 800MHz
>> GeForce 8800GTX
>> Enermax 1000W 75A@+12V
>> LAN 100/100
>> XP x64 dualboot Vista x64
>>
>>
>> "Netman" wrote:
>>
>>> Thought I would try the AHCI option with my hard drive in Vista 64-bi=
t.
>>> Turned on the option in the bios, installed motherboard drivers and
>>> everything seemed to work fine. However, periodically when trying to =

>>> write
>>> to the drive I would receive an error indicating that the drive was=20
>>> "write
>>> protected." I went back to the bios, turned the option back to IDE an=
d
>>> everything seems to be working fine. Not sure if this is a AHCI
>>> implementation problem on my motheboard (Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P using t=
he
>>> onboard Gigabyte controller) OR a problem with Vista 64-bit. Any=20
>>> thoughts?
>>>
>>>
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