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Disable RAID notifications on AHCI machine

edwinbradford

Junior Member
Hi all,

I have a problem that's not critcal but a nuisance. I followed the instructions on Intel's site regarding the installation of drivers for my SATA drives on my Bad Axe motherboard in which they state the best practice is to install their RAID drivers rather than their AHCI drivers as even if you only want AHCI, like me, the RAID drivers support both modes and hence you are future proofed should you decide to install RAID later. All is fine and everything works but every time I boot up I get a message from Intel Matrix Storage Manager and then one from the Marvell RAID controller or manager telling me that RAID is not configured and giving me the option to interrupt the boot up and configure them now.

Of course, I don't want RAID, at least not for now but I can't find any options to disable these notices and leave my system in AHCI only mode. I understand I can set my BIOS to AHCI but on the page above Intel also state

WARNING: Switching SATA modes in the BIOS after installing the operating system is not recommended or supported when a SATA drive is the boot drive. Switching modes may cause an immediate blue screen with an 0x0000007b error code, followed by a reboot.

There must be an easy solution to this? Thanks for any help.
 
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