trim on raid 0 with x79?

[idata]

Various tech sites such as Anandtech have an article up about the fact that with the newest RST software that Raid 0 and trim is supported.

Is this available for X79? The X79 of course uses RSTe which has a different version number to the normal RST and the articles do not mention anything about X79 at all

[idata]

Yes. The only problem with my method is that drivers have to be force loaded via device manager>have disk. That happens because 11.6/11.7 drivers do not include 2826 device ids in the .inf file. Also in order to retain the Windows UI on a fresh installation one must install an RSTe package (3.x), prior to force installing the F6 RST package.

One could mod the id into the .inf but that breaks the driver signature and would need Windows running in Test Mode/Disabled Signature Enforcement mode (I run Windows on this mode but this is because I know what I'm doing and I also self-sign drivers I develop myself for testing during development..I do not suggest average users to operate Windows in Test Mode because it makes the operating system susceptible to malicious drivers/rootkits as well).

[idata]

Hey Par, hope you had a nice holiday. Watch, ASRock won't make the option ROM switch for my 7 like they did with the Pro, champ, 11. I have begged them to mod the new 71 BIOS for me, so I'll wait ad see.

If not this means I need to extract the RST-E and inject the RST mod, this is what I didn't want to do.

Fernando tells me not to. But if ASRock won't put it out or mod it for me, then I'm going to do it and just inject it back where the RST-E was with the RST-E ID. Not worried about driver Sig, which only seems to be a problem with win 8 anyway, but with always putting in Beta's I have it off on my win 8.

I wanted to thanks to you for all the reply's. I figured this thread will be closed soon. I prayed for Santa to bring me the Ivy bridge -e, but I guess he didn't have that much magical power. LOL

[DZand]

odie bugs schrieb:

If not this means I need to extract the RST-E and inject the RST mod, this is what I didn't want to do.

Fernando tells me not to.

This advice was only valid for the injection of the original (not customized) Intel RAID ROM v11.6.0.1702 into an X79 chipset mainboard BIOS.

[idata]

Same to you Odie. Who knows what ASR will do, or why.

Why not try one of Fernando's mods, you should be able to flash over it if you don't like it. Did you try the version of IRST that works on X79 now? Or a mod'd version of that?

[idata]

Hey:

This is funny, I sent ASRock an email asking if they where going to add ROM switch to the X79 ex7, a week and a half and never replied.

So I extract the ROM, I notice there are both 2822, 2826, so I extract both, the goofs at ASRock have put in both ROMs in but never posted it in the BIOS update like they did with there other boards.

So I am running RAID 0, with the 11.6.0.1702 ROM, with the Beta BIOS, they also did a L1.73.

So it looks like TRIM is working.

Now I am on win 8, which last I knew wasn't suppose to support, optimize see's the RAID as a HDD.

*** Question for anyone who is running the 11.6.0.1702 ROM on win 7, does win 7 see the RAID as a SSD or HDD ?