Intel ICH10 drivers (now out)

[Richard Dower]

Spotted this over at station-drivers

SATA RAID drivers with support for ICH10R, dated April 15th 2008:

http://www.station-drivers.com/forum...hp?p=8495#8495

Voici quelques informations du package:
Date du drivers: 15/04/2008
WHQL: oui du 15/04/2008
Officiel: non
Sous: Windows 2000/XP/Vista 32/64bits
Multi langues: oui
pour:

RAID Controllers:
- Intel(R) ICH8M-E/ICH9M-E SATA RAID Controller
- Intel(R) ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R SATA RAID Controller
- Intel(R) ESB2 SATA RAID Controller
- Intel(R) ICH7MDH SATA RAID Controller
- Intel(R) ICH7R/DH SATA RAID Controller

AHCI Controllers:
- Intel(R) ICH10R SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) EP80579 SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) ICH9M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) ICH9R/DO/DH SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) ICH8M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) ICH8R/DH/DO SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) ESB2 SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) ICH7M/MDH SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) ICH7R/DH SATA AHCI Controller

[Richard Dower]

Drivers now available for download!

http://www.station-drivers.com/telec...ivers.com).exe

[Richard Dower]

Standalone drivers to be copied onto Floppy (XP) or USB flash drive (Vista) for OS instal:

http://rapidshare.de/files/39258861/....1039.rar.html

[Richard Dower]

What fudge Intel?...why couldn't they create a new info string for ICH10 without adding it to ICH8/9

[Richard Dower]

OMG!...look LOOK!

Finally, i can enable this option in Device Manager!!!
Previous driver releases would not allow the options to be enabled...

[Richard Dower]

Settings work, no need for the Intel software no more

[XS Janus]

Nice time-line posting dude.

[Richard Dower]

I'm lovin' it

[Peakr]

My French is a little rusty. Are these WHQL then? I see oui but then there is the du? haha!

[Richard Dower]

Yes, they are WHQL certified and legit.

[shiznit93]

OMG!...look LOOK!

Finally, i can enable this option in Device Manager!!!
Previous driver releases would not allow the options to be enabled...

ZOMG about ing time!

[Mad1723]

My French is a little rusty. Are these WHQL then? I see oui but then there is the du? haha!

I'm french, so yes, they are WHQL, but not "official"

[Frank M]

Nice time-line posting dude.

Yeah, and some thought double-posting was bad...
I can't decide if this goes into the septuple-posting or flooding category

[Afterburner]

Will these work with a X48 board and ICH9R....

[003]

Would it be a good idea to use these for ICH9R?

[Kai Robinson]

I'm wondering the same....although i dont use RAID - just single drives.

[Richard Dower]

To the three posters above....yes, these drivers will work with ICH9R and ICH8R. I'm using X38 with ICH9R in RAID 0. The drivers work just fine.

[p2501]

Schweet!

But I'm still wondering where in the hell I can enable NCQ, can't find anything conclusive on the net.

[Hornet331]

ncq is enabled by default on intel chipssets if the harddrive supports it and you are running sata/raid mode.

Of course you might also have to jumper your hdds correctly.

[003]

To the three posters above....yes, these drivers will work with ICH9R and ICH8R. I'm using X38 with ICH9R in RAID 0. The drivers work just fine.

Any improvement over the old drivers?

[3NZ0]

Wow, seems someone completely missed the point of the 'edit' button.

Cheers anyway.

[p2501]

ncq is enabled by default on intel chipssets if the harddrive supports it and you are running sata/raid mode.

Of course you might also have to jumper your hdds correctly.

Wonderful. I've read before that it's enabled by default, problem is when I check the discs via Everest, it only showes them as "Supported", not "Supported, Enabled". I just checked and found out that the Raptor indeed has a jumper field, I just have to find now how to set it to NCQ enabled I guess..

Edit: Checked it, there IS no jumper setting for Raptors to enable NCQ. I guess there must be another way to enable it. The controller already runs in AHCI mode, so where is the darn switch to enable NCQ. Will try the new chipset drivers later..

[cantankerous]

Thanks a lot for this heads up. I too was never able to enable the write back caching on any of my drives. These drivers cleared that issue right up. So far no issues with installing, booting from, or having my drives recognized in Vista X64. Definitely keepers for me. I love how they come with the loader files too.

[STaRGaZeR]

Thanks, they work flawlessly

[newls1]

Can these just be installed over my existing INTEL driver? I'm also using a RAID 0 setup if it matters. Or should I just wait till my next format to install these.