To iNtEl: I want auto trim but installed matrix storage driver!

[idata]

Hi,

I installed yesterday my new Win7 32bits i put it on my new Intel 160gb gen 2 with 02HD firmware and started installing drivers.

I installed Intel SSD Toolbox - v1.2 just for curiosity because i know i didn´t need it for trim, i read agood part of the manual (requirements and similar stuff) and i thought i was ready to install the Intel SSD Toolbox - v1.2. AFTER other stuff i decided to see a little more of the toolbox manual and I FOUND IN PAG 13!!!!!!! THAT ONE SHOULDN´T INSTALL matrix storage driver BECAUSE THEN ONE REALLY NEED TO USE THE TOOLBOX for trim!!!!!!!! IT SAYS THIS IN THE Schedule SECTION!!! (INSTED IN THE BEGIN WITH EG THE TITULE I M P O R T A N T):

6. If your PC uses Microsoft Windows 7 and the Intel Matrix Storage Manager version 8.x (which can be used in place of the Microsoft AHCI driver), then the Intel SSD Optimizer tool is required to enable the ATA Data Set Management Command (Trim).

NOW I LOST LOTS OFF HOURS AROUND THESE, INSTED OF EXPLORING MY NEW OS AND SSD ONLY TO FIND THAT althoug i uninstaled this matrix thing I NEED TO REINSTALL THE OS BECAUSE matrix storage driver MANUAL SAYS THAT TO REMOVE THE DRIVER ONE NEEDS TO REINSTALL THE OS!!!!!!!!!

Does someone knows a workround this ANNOYNCE? i have already lots of stuff installed and configurated

i don´t use raid but i want AHCI (I HAVE IT ENABLED IN THE SATA CONFIG IN THE BIOS before the OS install)

I cant see Intel(R) SATA AHCI Controller in the 'IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers' entry in device manager but i see this:

[idata]

I actually hope that window7 just send the command no matter which driver you are using but the command itself is ignored by iMSM

You are correct.

[Charles_F_Intel]

Pekish79,

Ziggy answered as I am that Win 7 will send command and driver will just not pass it on if driver doesn't support Trim, like current iMSM 8.9 driver. The DisableDeleteNotify setting is not a status of Trim enabled/disabled. It is an override setting. If it is set to "0", then Trim is functioning accorinding to Win 7 and driver. If it is set to "1", then Win 7 will not send Trim command no matter what driver setup.

Regards,

Brady

[Daniel_T_Intel]

Intel(R) 9.6.0 general release supports TRIM. Please keep in mind that it is supported only for Pass-Through mode and is not to a RAID volume.