Hello,
I have a Crucial M4 64GB SSD drive on a SATA3 port of my ASUS P8Z68-V Pro motherboard. When I first built the system, I used the SSD drive as a caching disk for the new Smart Response Technolgy. The accelerated volume is a RAID1 volume consisting of two 1TB WD Caviar Black HDDs using two SATA2 ports. Everything in this setup was working perfectly, until I decided to try disabling the SSD caching from within the Intel RST "Acceleration" tab. Although the acceleration is indeed no longer working, Intel RST thinks that the accelerated volume is missing and will not acknowledge that the SSD drive was removed from it's caching duties. I have tried reinstalling Intel RST, removing the SSD drive from the system entirely, and also moving it to different ports. No matter what I do, Intel RST still thinks it is tring to accelerate a volume with that SSD drive. When I attempt to "disassociate" the caching disk from whatever accelerated volume it thinks is missing, it just gives an error saying the operation failed.
How can I completely remove any logical association that Intel RST has between that SSD drive and anything else on my system? Is there a way I can wipe Intel RST entirely (including the drivers, and the utility you use during system boot via CRTL-I, etc) without also ruining the perfectly functional RAID1 volume that has my OS, data, etc?
About my system:
CPU: i7-2600K
RAM: 8GB GSkill PC-12800 DDR3-1600
MOBO: ASUS P8Z68-V Pro
Storage: 2 x 1TB WD Caviar Black 64MB cache (RAID1 volume)
SSD Cache: Crucial M4 64GB (RAID0 volume)
GPU: EVGA Nvidia GTX 560Ti
OS: Windows 7 Professional, 64bit
Asus BIOS Version: 0501
Intel RST Version: 10.5.0.1026
