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SATA III drive - breaks SATA II AHCI on nForce4 - reverts to SATA 150 MB/s - possible workaround?
*Windows XP*
Trying to get SATA II AHCI working on my Abit KN8 SLI (nForce4), but the SATA III SSD I'm using causes a bug with the nForce drivers and reverts to 150 MB/s - or so the story goes. There aren't any settings for AHCI in the BIOS. But apparently, it will work at proper speeds under Windows Vista onward, using Generic Microsoft AHCI drivers. Of course, the goal of this build is to stay on Windows XP.
I could get a PCIe SATA controller, but that sort of feels like cheating. My PCIe is capped at 1.0x anyway.
UniATA seems promising, but I haven't been able to make it work.
Has anyone ran into this before and come out victorious? The internet is full of people saying to upgrade, and I want make this work even more, because of them 🤣
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