TI 2010 and SandForce SSD III
I am a long time user of TI 2010. It has never failed me. I have used it to created backups of my boot disk and restore to an SSD without failure. However, I have run into a strange problem where SSD's with the SandForce SATA III controller cause the BIOS on a SATA II MB (Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P) to hang when the SATA controller is set to AHCI. The BIOS will boot with the SSD attached when the controller is set to IDE!
All of the SSD's work properly when connected to a MB with an Intel controller that supports SATA III. Also, the old MB's will boot OK with a new SATA III SSD. I can fomat the SSD with W7 etc. It is only after I do a restore of the boot disk using TI 2010 that the SSD becomes a problem on the old SATA II MB's.
Gigabyte has shown me examples of their test system where the exact same set up works OK. The only variable I can think of is the way I made the SSD's. Any Ideas on what is going on would be appreciated. Have I reached the end of the life cycle for TI 2010 ...and... is this problem resolved (if it is even a TI issue?) in the newer versions?
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I left out one important piece of information - I used TI to make a backup of a hard disk (one partition) that was the boot drive. I then restored the backup of the hard disk to an SSD with a SandForce SATA III controller. I have done this routine many times and have never had a problem. That is until I tried to use a SATA III SSD created from the TI restore on a MB with an Intel SATA II controller. I have at least three SATA III SSD's created in this manner that work on MB's with Intel SATA III controllers but cause the BIOS to hang on the MB's with the Intel SATA II controller. I just installed a HighPoint Rocket 620 SATA III card on one of the systems with the Intel SATA II controller and the "problem" SSD's works just fine. So it would seem that the TI restore to a SandForce SATA III drive is doing something that the Intel SATA II controller does not like. Gigabyte has shown me screen shots that prove the BIOS on the MB in question boots OK with the OCZ Vertex 3 SSD. When I get some time I will create a boot SATA III SSD via a fresh install of W7 and see if the problem goes away. In the meantime the HighPoint card is probably the better solution for these older MB's.
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