Jun 15, 2012 - I recently purchased the Dell Precision T5600, but i am not able to install Windows 7 because the SAS/SATA Controller Driver is not available. The PERC H330 RAID Controller from Dell offers reliability and performance in addition to providing management with the tolerant disk subsystem failures. This RAID controller improve the performance of your server systems. 2 x SATA 6Gb/s / SAS 12Gb/s - 4 x Mini SAS HD (SFF-8643) (internal) Miscellaneous. Dell Support. From drivers.
Dec 15, 2016. RAID Controller AHCI Controllers: - Intel(R) ICH10D/DO SATA AHCI. Vista, click Load Driver to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver. The Dell OpenManage storage management application enables you to perform controller and enclosure functions for all supported RAID controllers and enclosures from a single graphical or command-line interface without using of the controller BIOS utilities. 4 Port PCI SATA RAID Controller Adapter Card *actual product may vary from photos. • 1 x PCI SATA RAID controller card • 1 x Low profile bracket • 1 x Installation CD • 1 x Instruction Manual. Once the driver is installed, click the Close button.
Which AHCI drivers to use for XPS 13 (9360) when switching from RAID?
UPDATE 2: Dell officially responded here and confirmed that they released a new BIOS version (1.3.2) that is supposed to resolve the AHCI boot issue on BIOS 1.2.3. I'm going to give it a shot later tonight with the most recent BIOS.
UPDATE: I also found this thread which reports that the system will not boot at all in AHCI using BIOS 1.2.3, which is pretty alarming. However, it's not certain whether this is limited to certain brands of NVMe drives, or if all are affected.
I picked up a refurbished XPS 13 (9360) and am planning to set up dual boot Windows 10 / Ubuntu 16.10, but according to this, I have to switch the SATA operation mode from RAID (default) to AHCI. This causes the existing Windows image to become inoperable since it was installed under RAID by Dell.
OK, that's not a problem since it's a fresh install anyway, so I make a bootable USB from an ISO straight from Microsoft using Rufus, and discover that the NVMe drive doesn't show up in the list of drives that you can install. This is due to it being in RAID, so I do some more reading. After noting the model of my NVMe (Toshiba THNSN5256GPUK) and diving into that topic, I found two possible drivers:
Intel Rapid Storage Technology (IRST) — according to Dell and Notebook Review forums, I should download the latest IRST package, extract the AHCI drivers, and load them during the Windows install.
OCZ (Toshiba) NVMe Drivers (scroll down to H) — according to an old thread here, these drivers work for the older Toshiba THNSN5256GPU7 and I'm reading that they will not work for my drive.
So before I switch over to AHCI and destroy the factory Windows 10 image, I have some questions:
Dell Sata Raid Controller Driver Mac
Do I even need to install AHCI drivers? If so, which one is recommended? According to most things I've read, if I go with IRST drivers I should install the ONLY the AHCI drivers and none of the IRST software... but I've also read that Windows 10 includes a native NVMe controller, making 3rd party drivers unnecessary.
There are various reports of IRST drivers not working (BSODs, instability, etc.); how true are these?
Any other tips for a clean Windows / Linux install?
Edit: just noticed that code brackets make this post really hard to read when not in RES night mode so I've removed them.