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5) The drivers compatible for XP for all motherboards in the table below are stored on the T: drive (software drive under Windows drivers). If you require drivers for motherboards after the 100 series they may be available from http://www.win-raid.com/t2f23-Intel-RST-RSTe-Drivers-newest-v-WHQL-v-WHQL.html (a page on the WinRaid forums that is maintained by Fernando who keeps a list of (fairly) updated drivers for newer motherboards and a very comprehensive set of instructions). Make sure you download the classical drivers and you may want to look up the model of the motherboard and the southbridge (sometimes manufacturers modify components) to choose the best version(more info on this in the above link). In case you cannot find the drivers, a fallback is presented at the end of the document (in the additional info section, however, note that this is NOT guaranteed to work, Fernando's drivers have been tested and so would be the first choice when choosing between drivers.)

6) In case you cannot get a hold of the device id for the SATA controller, I have included a table at the end of the document that lists the most common controllers for common intel motherboards.

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(The Intel chipsets X99(2014-Haswell and Haswell EP) and X79(2011) run the enterprise versions of the RST drivers and though the packages drivers SHOULD work on them as well, no documentation or verification for these chipsets could be found. Possible DEVID = DEV_1D02 (X79) and DEV_1F22 (X99))

Additional Info on HDD drivers:

Note that the newest available drivers are not automatically the best drivers for a system. There are certain things to keep in mind when choosing drivers for a system:

  • The newer Intel drivers are only meant to support the newest hardware on the (relatively) newer platforms so they are better optimized for these platforms and chipsets. Using an older version may yield an increase in performance if you notice the HDDs are particularly slow.
  • The conventional (or legacy) Intel drivers with a single file DO NOT have support for TRIM operations (only applicable if you are using an SSD). The newer style drivers do not work on XP (though Windows 7 and up is supported along with limited functionality (there are known issues) with Vista)
  • The Baytrail chipsets are not properly supported by Intel themselves so running anything that does not work out of the box on a Baytrail chipset may be a lengthy process of trial and error.
  • In case you cannot find drivers for the specific system you are working on, it might be worth a try to unpack the supported version of the drivers(non-legacy) from both the files, and make an attempt to repackage and resign them in order to get them to a format recognizable by XP. A downgrade might also be possible if you know that the SCSI hasnt changed much (although in this case you would manually have to find the *.inf files with the device hardware Ids and add a line for the specific chipset that you are working on.) NOTE: Both these processes are only responsible for making the driver INSTALLABLE on the machine, they do not change the driver itself, so there is no guarantee that the repackaged and resigned drivers will work at all on the system. More information about using PkgSignTool can be found here https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn789236(v=vs.85).aspx

Further Support:

In case of need for further support (for both legacy and windows 7 drivers), the person who maintains the pages on the winRAID forums (Fernando) replies fairly promptly to both new posts on existing threads and messages (a couple of days) and should be able to help with any problems running legacy operating systems on newer machines (in terms of missing driver files). The information presented here is taken mainly from his guides and partly from various other sources on the web.