What about clicking on "Storage Controllers"? You also have Asmedia Controller. Is it attached to that? Is IRST running? Open it & look at your drives...
No, the primary drive is not on the ASMedia controllers - I even tried switching it from the brown (6g) to the black (3g) since it's only a 3g drive, but nothing changed. Checking the details shown in RST, it doesn't appear to indicate anything about ACHI - it just indicates that they are SATA drives and what speed (6 or 3).
AHCI = Advanced Host Controller Interface is a hardware mechanism that allows the software to communicate with Serial ATA (SATA) devices. It offers features such as hot-plugging and native command queuing (NCQ). AHCI works 100% with any SATA HDD but IDE HDD's. On IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) HDD's the Hot-Plug and NCQ isn't working. If AHCI is enabled in BIOS, it should work with no problems in Windows 7. It's possible that it will have problems if AHCI was enabled AFTER the installation of Windows 7. In later case you could enable AHCI manually in the Registry of Windows 7. I'd created an tuto for to set AHCI later in Windows 7 which maybe would need to disable AHCI in BIOS first again: Again: Use this only if you installed Windows 7 BEFORE you had set the HDD's in BIOS to AHCI!
Very strange. I was advised, however, that my ASMedia controller appears to be in IDE mode, even if the Intel ports ARE in SATA ACHI. And apparently you CAN also use the Intel drivers (RSTe 12.4 was recommended) even for the ASMedia drivers. I'm clearing things off the primary drive, just in case I have to do ANOTHER re-install (this weekend). I *think* part of my problem was in trying out a couple of these "driver finders" for the first time. I think I just rely on Station-Drivers and Guru3d going forward lol. Wish there was a nice RSS fee set up for different mobos, components, etc BTW, when I say SLOW, I'm talking <5mb/s transfer rate
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