I played it safe and waited to hear from the EVGA raid rom forum and the response was that that rom is not compatible with Award Pheonix Bios.
So I guess I’m not going to update to the 1.20E until I hear otherwise.
Thank you.
Happy Holidays to you too!
Thanks for the info.
Meanwhile I have added the Intel RAID ROM v13.1.0.2030 to the start post of this thread.
Now I am searching for the related Intel EFI SataDriver v13.1.0.2030 named SataDriver.ffs.
Does anyone have a link?
@ SoniX:
Thanks for the link!
@ all:
Update of the start post
Changelog:
- added: Intel RST(e) RAD ROM v13.1.0.2030
- added: AMD RAID ROM + MISC.BIN v3.3.1540.19 for DEV_7803 (thanks to Fuxxer for the files!)
Unsure: Will TRIM in RAID0 modded Intel RAID ROM v13.1.0.2030 variants work?
After having done a deeper look into the hex codes of the Intel RAID ROM v13.1.0.2030 I do not really recommend to flash it into any Intel 4/5/6-Series Chipset mainboard.
Reasons:
- Until now there is only a Beta version of the Intel RST(e) drivers v13 available.
- The IRST v13 series is primarily designed for the Intel 8-Series and the upcoming Intel 9-Series chipsets and not optimized for older Intel chipsets.
- Starting with v13.1.0.2030 Intel has changed the Intel RAID ROM section, which is responsible for the TRIM in RAID0 support.
Bad consequence: It is rather uncertain, that a TRIM modded Intel RAID ROM v13.1.0.2030 will support TRIM in RAID0 at all.
Nevertheless I have prepared 2 test versions of the Intel RAID ROM v13.1.0.2030 mod for P67+Z68, which have been modified by me a different way. It seems possible for me, that one of them may work, but I don’t know which one. Since just 2 Bytes of the TRIM section were altered, there will be no big risk to brick the mainboard by flashing the modded BIOS. Nevertheless a system backup should be done and an original BIOS should be prepared for an emergency case.
Courageous P67 or Z68 RAID0 users, who want to test them, should send me an eMail ([email protected]) with the link to the BIOS they want to get modified.
As soon as I get the feedback, that one of the modded test BIOSes definitively supports TRIM in RAID0 for P67 and Z68 chipsets, I will offer some modded variants of the Intel RAID ROM v13.1.0.2030 within the start post of this thread.
Hi Fernando & all user,
>AMD RAID MISC.BIN v3.3.1540.17 for DEV_4393 UEFI BIOS< (>MIRROR<)
(for DEV_4393, thanks to felix_w for the file)
the file is damaged:
Info:
AMD RAID MISC.BIN v3.3.1540.17 for DEV_4393 UEFI BIOS - GUID = 9BD5C81D-096C-4625-A08B-405F78FE0CFD
1002_4392_3.2.1540.6_uefi_misc.bin (9BD5C81D-096C-4625-A08B-405F78FE0CFC)
1002_4393_3.3.1540.17_uefi_misc.bin (9BD5C81D-096C-4625-A08B-405F78FE0CFD)
(extracted by myself)
kind regards
Fuxxer
@ Fuxxer:
Thanks for your info regarding the wrong byte within the MISC.BIN module v3.3.1540.17.
I will replace the linked file as soon as possible by the correct one.
EDIT: Done!
Happy New Year!
Fernando
Just noticed that there is a new 3.2.1.0 version of AHCI ROM for AMD ( thanks to kgbab) .
Will try to see if it is working with older SB7XX AMD southbrigde…
Happy New Year everyone!
Thanks for the info, but the AMD AHCI ROM v3.2.1.0 is already linked within the start post of this thread since several weeks.
Happy New Year!
It seems like there is a new firmware for the Marvell 88SE92xx available. The flasher is originally designed for a HighPoint R640L.
AUTOLOAD VERSION[0x00000000]: 200017
LOADER VERSION[0x0000C000]: 21001006
BIOS VERSION[0x00020000]: 1.0.0.1018
FIRMWARE VERSION[0x00030000]: 2.3.0.1053
VENDOR_ID = 1B4B
DEVICE_ID_LIST = 9220,9230,9236,9215,9225,9235,922A,923A
Link
Mirror
MD5: a47fc815f4409271bd5e5e97572318a4
AHCI mode tested & worked on ASUS P5Q Deluxe board. RAID mode is not supposed to be working, so …
Many thanks.
Thanks for the info, but the AMD AHCI ROM v3.2.1.0 is already linked within the start post of this thread since several weeks.
Happy New Year!
It’s no info, that’s where i noticed now ! I hadn’t logged in for some time and i noticed in the first post that kgbab found and posted it.
Hi Fernando,
I just finished setting my new 2x ssd raid 0 on my asus p8p67 pro and it seems like trim is sadly not working.
I replaced the raid rom module (8086-2822) of the bios with the one you suggested me (modded IRST(e) ROM v11.6.0.1702 for p67) before flashing it, then i created my raid 0 array before installing windows 7 on it.
Then I pre-installed the drivers IRST v.11.7.4.1001, finished the windows installation and installed the IRST software/console of the same version (v.11.7.4.1001).
When I use fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify I get 0 as I should, but using the HxD method, the characters are still there after deletion of the file used (not all 0’s or F’s).
Is there anything I can do to find out what’s wrong ?
Thx
Alex
Hey Fernando, I just updated my Asus R3E bios (ZioMod) with OROM v13.1.0.2030. I’ve tested it both with 12.9 and with beta 13.1 Intel RST drivers, and I can confirm that everything is working as usual on our old X58 chipset. Benchmarks are giving pretty good results too, in line with the old v11.5 drivers/OROM combo, which still holds the best performance results but was a bit unstable (IMHO). Also, TRIM seems to work! Here’s the output from Trimcheck:
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TRIM check v0.4 - Written by Vladimir Panteleev
https://github.com/CyberShadow/trimcheck
Loading continuation data from C:\trimcheck-cont.json...
Drive path : \\.\C:
Offset : 70111981568
Random data : 2D CB 02 70 49 4E 85 BA 1C FF CE 70 0E B2 C1 6C...
Reading raw volume data...
Opening \\.\C:...
Seeking to position 70111981568...
Reading 16384 bytes...
First 16 bytes: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00...
Data is empty (filled with 0x00 bytes).
CONCLUSION: TRIM appears to be WORKING!
Press Enter to exit...
Hello Alex,
TRIM should be active within your P67 RAID0 array after having flashed the BIOS with the P67/Z68 TRIM modded Intel RAID ROM v11.6.0.1702.
Question:
Which SSDs (manufacturer and sort) are the members of the RAID0?
Tip:
Please download the newest version 1.1.0 of Anvil’s Storage Utility (you can get it from >this< site) and trigger TRIM. After having done that, retry the manual TRIM check.
@ ZioGTS:
Welcome at win-raid.com!
It is fine, that you are a registered member of my Forum, because you are an expert, who will be able to help other visitors to solve their problem resp. to answer a lot of questions.
Thanks for your interesting report.
Additional questions:
- According to your signature at bios-mods.com you are running a single 256 GB Samsung 830 SSD. Is this still actual?
- Is your Intel SATA Controller running in AHCI or RAID mode?
Enjoy the Forum!
Fernando
The members of my RAID 0 are 2x Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 240GB drives, but one is slightly older (MKNSSDCR240GB-DX) than the other (MKNSSDCR240GB - DX7).
From what I know they are the same except the newest version is 7mm thick instead of 9.5 but the same Firmware is installed on both.
I just tried triggering TRIM on Anvil’s Storage Utility and it gave me this message:
Triggering TRIM completed on drive C:
All drives do not respond to the “TRIM” command!
If the drive responds, it could take minutes before the drive is ready and back to full speed.
Then when I press OK the drives kind of freeze for 1-2 minutes before it’s back to normal and after testing again, trim still doesn’t seem to work.
EDIT: I don’t know what changed, but TRIM now appears to be working !
Thank you so much for all your guides and ressources, I finally have my raid fully working with trim enabled !
Cheers
Alex
Hi ZioGTS. It’s you friend sinders from bios-mods.
I haven’t actually tried the new OROM v13.1.0.2030 yet.
I take it this new OROM seems to enable TRIM in RAID0 for us as standard without having to mod
the OROM itself or is the screenshot you posted actually TRIM working with a single drive?