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How do i deactivate the SATA Hotplug in Bios

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Topic: How do i deactivate the SATA Hotplug in Bios

Posted By: DonFale
Subject: How do i deactivate the SATA Hotplug in Bios
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2016 at 3:28am

" rel="nofollow - Hello, like mentioned above im searching how i can disable the Hotplug Feature of the ASMEDIA Controller my Board uses. Windows detects Hard Drives conncted to the Asmedia Controller als external Drives and not intern drives wich bugs me a lot.

I need to use the asmedia posts since i dont have enough of the Intel ports since M2 disables them. i looked in the BIOS/UEFI and i can only find the option to disable hotplug on the intel controller wich does not cause the problem.

Is there a solution for my Problem so that Windows detects my Hard Drives like it should?

Thanks!

MB i use "Fatal1ty Z170 Professional Gaming i7"

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Posted By: wardog
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2016 at 3:37am

Easily done but I need to know what Windows OS you use. ie 10 x64, 8.1 x86 etc

Posted By: DonFale
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2016 at 5:03am

i use win10 pro 64bit

if you mean to do it with a registry entry i already did do it but the hard disks always show in devices and on safe eject

Posted By: parsec
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2016 at 10:01am

DonFale wrote:

" rel="nofollow - Hello, like mentioned above im searching how i can disable the Hotplug Feature of the ASMEDIA Controller my Board uses. Windows detects Hard Drives conncted to the Asmedia Controller als external Drives and not intern drives wich bugs me a lot.

Is there a solution for my Problem so that Windows detects my Hard Drives like it should?

Thanks!

MB i use "Fatal1ty Z170 Professional Gaming i7"

You are using all three of the M.2 slots? That's the only way all of the Intel SATA ports would be not usable.

If you have three M.2 SSDs, using an M.2 to PCIe slot adapter card for one of the M.2 SSDs would free up two Intel SATA ports.

What driver are you using for the ASMedia SATA ports?

This may be another wonderful Windows 10 thing. Like Win 10 breaking Teaming of multiple network chips on a board. Intel still has not found a way to fix that situation since Win 10 was introduced, and over six new Intel network driver releases.

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Posted By: DonFale
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2016 at 7:16pm

i currently use 1 m2 port with a 960pro and i have 7hdds connected internally and 3 of them are recognised as portable media - these 3 are connected to the asmedia chipset.

as for driver i use the standard driver wich came with windows since there is no other driver to download on the site of the asrock board

Posted By: wardog
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2016 at 8:06pm

DonFale wrote:

as for driver i use the standard driver wich came with windows since there is no other driver to download on the site of the asrock board

Oh lord no!

ftp://europe.asrock.com/Drivers/All/SATA/ASMedia_SATA3" rel="nofollow - ftp://europe.asrock.com/Drivers/All/SATA/ASMedia_SATA3 (v2.0.8).zip

EDIT Copy and paste that link above for it to work

Posted By: DonFale
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2016 at 8:21pm

i did try the driver just now but nothing did change for me - they are still on safe eject and windows sthinks they are external

Posted By: wardog
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2016 at 8:34pm

Sorry. We bad. I've notified the Webmaster of the missing ASM1061 drivers.