Gigabyte mobo - intel raid constaltly putting disks to sleep

[augusto]

Hi All,

I know this is a bit of an old mobo (Gigabyte X58A ud3r rev2), but probably someone might had the same issue with the intel raid firmware. I recently updated the BIOS from an ancient version (FA if my memory serves me right) to the latest (FF - which includes a new intel raid firmware).

After doing this update, the disks on the Raid (2 mechanical drives) are being put constantly to sleep or idle and when the drives are woken again, my computer freezes for a second (which is annoying). I don't know how to revert this... I have so far tried, with no success:

* Disabled "Link power management" in the Intel Rapid Storage application.
* Configured Windows 8 to now put disks to sleep from the Control Panel -> Power Options.

The only thing that "worked" is writing a small program that writes 1 byte to the Raid every 5 seconds (not ideal solution)

Does anyone know how to configure windows / the raid to not park the drives?


Thanks a lot!
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[augusto]

Hi Troops and Mushtafa! Thanks a lot for your replies!

@troops: I'm using v13.2.4.1000 (released 25/07/2014). The Driver path points to C:\Windows\System32\DRIVERS\iaStorA.sys (in case I "should" be using a 64bit version of it)

@mushtafa
Thanks a lot for that link. I read a bit those forums (in particular the changes to the intel driver), but I'm not 100% happy at installing a handcrafted ROM on my PC. I'm going to read a bit more about it, but I really doubt I'll install one of those ROMs.

 

[augusto]

Thanks troops! I also found a few people mentioning that v12.x was the best version to use with this mobo.