Intel 82801fbm Sata Ahci Controller Drivers For Mac

• Update Standard Sata Ahci Controller

GA965-DS3, Asus P5B and Intel DP965LT are the three most popular mobo for Conroe, and all use ICH8. Asus P5B and Intel DP965LT give AHCI option is bios setup menus, while the 965-DS3 did not give. (that indicates the sata ports from ICH8, not the added chipset Jmicron), I am not sure of that, because I do have Asus P5B and Intel DP965LT. If you are using them, can you confirm that the two be able to choose the AHCI mode for ICH8 sata ports?

Hello, looking for the driver for the following controller, as it appears in device manager: Intel ESB2 SATA RAID Controller The closest I could find is teh ESRT-2 SATA and SAS Software RAID driver for Windows. Oct 09, 2009  I have the X38 chipset, which I think is also Series 3 chipset, and would like to know which driver to install for AHCI x64 Windows 7. I know Windows 7 installs an AHCI driver by default, but I would like to install latest Intel driver for AHCI.

Or any one know there are ways to set the AHCI mode of ICH8 sata port for GA965-DS3. See this post to enable booting OS X when ICH8 controller is set to IDE mode. The vendor and device ID for all ICH8 chipsets is the same. Make sure you clear out the extensions.mkext and extensions.kextcache prior to reboot. If you implement this fix on your hackintosh please post a reply as someone in another thread flamed me for posting this information stating it wasn't 'relevant'. Did it work for you? Is the performance as good as in AHCI mode?

By the way I'm posting this from Mac OS Safari, yes got internet working. Thanks to: PO. I also noticed that now I can see second HD (with winXP) on JM363 in AHCI when I'm using Mac OS (on another SATA HD connected to ICH8 in AHCI) Played video located on winXP partition no problems playing. Edited January 23, 2007 by vasiliy. Hi Oleg, My MB is Asus P5B, it has ICH8 not ICH8R. I tried F6 with with drivers from intel but there is only ICH8R, it didn't work for me.

Vasilii Info from Intel web site: Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) is an interface specification that allows the storage driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features such as Native Command Queuing and hot plug. 'SATA native mode' is not the same as AHCI. It is up to the motherboard manufacturer to include AHCI support in the BIOS - A BIOS update might give you AHCI whereas you did not have it before.

Update Standard Sata Ahci Controller

AHCI is very good for OSX since on a HDD controller working in AHCI mode SMART enabled monitoring programs can read HDD temperatures for each drive whereas only for one, a few or some connected to a SATA controller running in IDE, 'native' or 'enhanced' mode (again depending on your BIOS and controller I guess). If you have installed Windows when your HDD controller was in anything but AHCI mode you can always update your install by doing this: 1) Install drivers for other controller in Windows (e.g. JMB36x, Sil3132 etc). Download AHCI drivers for your main controller (or keep them on CD or whatever). 2) Move HDD that you boot from to that other controller and set your BIOS to boot from that. 3) Change your setting for your main controller to AHCI.

4) Boot Windows. 5) Windows detects new hardware. Follow installation instructions and install your AHCI drivers.

6) Move your HDD back to the original controller and keep it in AHCI mode but change your BIOS to boot from that. 7) Smile or do something that makes you happy.