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We recommend to use the following drivers for the respective hard disk controller, RAID controller, motherboard chipset or listed hardware device. These may be not the most recent versions of the drivers, but they were tested either by us or reported by most users as actually working, meaning that they do allow getting complete hard disk status information and they do enable important disk features, as e.g. TRIM on SSD drives. Different versions from the ones listed here _might_ work on your system, but usually they have been found to be quite buggy and therefore we do not recommend their use.

The following drivers are tested and recommended to use for the appropriate hard disk controller, RAID controller, motherboard chipset or related hardware device to get complete hard disk status information:

Note that all hard disk controllers provide hard disk status information in single/standalone mode only unless RAID mode is listed for the appropriate hard disk controller (RAID controller).

Note: the firmware update for ASMedia ASM1051 USB3.0 bridge may work with enclosures, adapters based on this chip to get the missing status information. Not recommended for SIIG JU-SA0212-S1 as the device does not work with the new firmware.

Please check back for new, updated, tested and verified drivers for different disk controllers.

In some situations, the newest (most recent) drivers may not be working correctly, in this case the updated version is not listed and you should select a driver from this list.

Note

The ATA port driver and ATA miniport driver models may be altered or unavailable in the future. Instead, we recommend using the Storport driver and Storport miniport driver models.

In Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, the port/miniport driver pair associated with the IDE bus is a SCSI miniport driver, atapi.sys, that linked to the SCSI port driver, scsiport.sys.

In Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP, the IDE port driver atapi.sys is an independent driver that no longer links to scsiport.sys, nor to any other wrapper driver.

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There are three system-supplied drivers in the IDE driver model for Windows 2000 and Windows XP: atapi.sys (port driver), pciidex.sys (controller driver), and pciide.sys (generic controller minidriver). All three drivers are illustrated in the following figure.

Starting from the bottom of the figure, the following describes each driver in the stack:

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1. The IDE stack in Windows 2000 and Windows XP is layered over the PCI bus driver.

2. Microsoft provides a native IDE controller driver/minidriver pair that is capable of managing most IDE controllers. The IDE controller driver, pciidex.sys, handles the hardware-independent aspects of the driver pair, and the minidriver, pciide.sys, handles the hardware-dependent aspects.

3. Vendors can elect to provide their own IDE controller minidriver instead of using the native minidriver, pciide.sys. The vendor's minidriver must work together with the Microsoft-supplied controller driver to form a controller-minidriver pair. See Requirements for Vendor-Supplied IDE Controller Minidrivers for an explanation of the requirements a vendor's minidriver must fulfill to work properly with the native Microsoft controller driver.

4. Microsoft provides an IDE port driver, atapi.sys, which is also known as the channel driver, because it creates and manages a functional device object (FDO) for each IDE channel. The port driver is layered above the IDE controller/minidriver pair. It translates the SCSI request blocks (SRB) that it receives from the storage class driver into the format required by the underlying IDE controller. In particular, the command descriptor blocks (CDB) contained within an SRB are defined differently for ATAPI and SCSI devices. The port driver repackages CDBs to make them compatible with the ATAPI transport protocol, thereby insulating upper-level drivers from peculiarities of the IDE bus.

5. Microsoft provides a CD-ROM class driver capable of managing all CD-ROM (type 5 SCSI) devices.

To see a diagram of the device object stack corresponding to the driver stack in the previous figure, see Device Object Example for a PCI IDE Controller.

In Windows Vista and later versions of the operating system, the IDE stack is managed by the ATA Port Driver.