Modifying a .NET Application

Tue, 14 Mar 2017 15:31:03 +0000

I will explain why in a seperate post, but on my MacBook Pro I wanted to use the Intel Thunderbolt driver under BootCamp instead of the ones supplied by Apple.

The Thunderbolt control program however refused with the following error message:

It’s really beyond me why Intel would deliberately block their Thunderbolt software on Apple hardware (under Windows). Believing this was just a simple hardcoded hardware check rather than any hardware issue that would prevent the drivers to work I proceeded into finding where the check takes place.

Switch SATA Operation Mode

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:38:19 +0000

Modern systems usually offer different SATA Operation Modes such as ATA, AHCI or IRRT.

The AHCI mode offers extra features such as hot swapping and native command queuing.

Many vendors set the SATA Operation Mode to ATA by default because it’s the most compatible mode but there are a few reasons why you might want to change it:

AHCI has a higher performance than ATA.
AHCI is a requirement for the TRIM command.
AHCI is required for self encrypting hard drives

Please note that the IRRT (integrated raid) mode is supposed to support all functionality of AHCI but in my experience it doesn't.

So the question is: how do we switch the SATA Operation Mode from ATA or IRRT to AHCI?

Intel on Remko's Blog

Modifying a .NET Application

Switch SATA Operation Mode