Recent content by zkyez

Let me just say that I’d convert my existing license to a perpetual one in a heartbeat. I use hwinfo and have been for years and I love the product.

To make sure about which is which you can go to details tab , select Hardware Ids from the dropdown list. You should see something like this: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_9C83&SUBSYS_503417AA&REV_03 (this is not an asmedia controller, it's an Intel from a Lenovo laptop i have around). Google that hardware...

After you uninstalled the driver and rebooted there is a _new_ device under IDE/ATAPI Controllers named Standard SATA AHCI Controller. That's your device. With ASmedia driver it would show under Storage Controllers. You are correct, if you used the "have disk" option when installing the...

As i said my controller is at the end of a thunderbolt cable so the system freezes could come from there. I am genuinely curious if you can reproduce the issue with Microsoft's standard driver.

Yes it seems a new "feature" introduced by their windows 10 drivers (i'd say this is their 3.x driver series). I can't reproduce this in a VM using passthrough for the enclosure.

For whoever reads this thread and has a similar issue: you can revert your driver to Microsoft provided sata driver (msahci) and the drives no longer disappear. I have done a quick test using AS SSD bench and there is no performance difference between ASmedia and Microsoft driver.

Hello, I just registered to ask if this was ever fixed. I have an asmedia 1601 powered thunderbolt enclosure and hwinfo64 scans makes the drive disappear. I have exactly the same issue as OP. Thank you! Edit: tried ASM-106x Sata 6G controller Drivers Version 3.1.9.0 WHQL and the machine...