/profile-content.jspa?userID=106534&filterID=contentstatus[published] Recent content in Intel Communities en Tue, 01 May 2012 09:03:01 GMT Jive SBS 5.0.2.0 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2012-05-01T09:03:01Z en http://communities.intel.com/thread/29086 <!-- [DocumentBodyStart:5e266641-6ae7-4530-b1f2-cf98cc25829c] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p> I'm using the Intel 5 Series 4 Port SATA AHCI Controller driver.&nbsp; I recently updated to the latest version (10.0.0.1046) in hopes of solving the following issue but no such luck.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>My disk activity light blinks from startup to shutdown at appx. 1 second intervals.&nbsp; While I have not directly verified what's causing it on my system yet, I found a thread at a Windows forum describing exactly the same issue and the poster isolated it to this driver.&nbsp; He solved the problem by removing the driver because he didn't need the functionality.&nbsp; Unfortunately, I do since I recently installed a SSD and need AHCI support for it.&nbsp; According to the thread poster's data, these accesses include writes.&nbsp; This is particularly troubling as SSDs lifetimes are typically limited by write/erase cycles.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>Anyone?</p><p>Thnaks.</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:5e266641-6ae7-4530-b1f2-cf98cc25829c] --> Tue, 01 May 2012 09:03:01 GMT webadmin@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/thread/29086 2012-05-01T09:03:01Z 1 year, 3 weeks ago 2 0