Windows 10: Marvell 92XX SATA Controller 6GB Driver for Windows 10 1.2.0.1039-WHQL

Marvell 92XX SATA Controller 6GB Driver for Windows 10 (x64) 1.2.0.1039-WHQL (9/5/2013 a.k.a. 6/19/2014)

In Windows 10, the driver for the Marvell SATA Controller may not get installed automatically which leads us on a wild goose chase as to where to find it.

Marvell's driver download page only lists this driver as for Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows 7, and Windows 8. The Windows 8 driver will work fine on Windows 10 but the driver at Marvell is slightly older than the driver provided here.

This driver is found at EVGA's driver download page (EVGA - Download Center) and is for the Z87 FTW motherboard. Also, it is listed as a Windows 8/8.1 driver named "SATA 3/6G (Non-Intel)"but works flawlessly on Windows 10.

The actual driver date listed in Windows after the driver is installed is 9/5/2013, but many download sites list the driver release date as 6/9/2014.

Oddly, the driver is listed as "SATA 3/6G (Non-Intel)", which is kind of ridiculous because the only other controller besides Intel on this board is Marvell, so instead of saying "Non-Intel" wouldn't it be just as easy to say "Marvell"? And in fact, when you click "Download", the file that downloads is named "Marvell_1.2.0.1039-WHQL.zip"

However, I believe this Marvell driver will work fine on many platforms other than EVGA motherboards, as it is for the Marvell 92xx SATA 6GB Controller and there is very little chance that a vendor has modified this chipset. (which would require their own driver, of course.)

I had no problems with a controller not working, drives not being recognized, not utilizing the correct speed of the controller, etc.

On the contrary, the only reason I began my search for this proper driver was that I saw it as a missing driver in Device Manager and was listed as "Other Devices > Unknown Device". The Hardware ID was quite cryptic listed as "SCSI/PCI...." something. It did not look like a normal Hardware ID.

After the driver provided here is installed, the true hardware ID of the Marvell SATA 6GB Controller listed in Device Manager is as below:

PCI\VEN_1B4B&DEV_9220&SUBSYS_92201B4B&REV_10
PCI\VEN_1B4B&DEV_9220&SUBSYS_92201B4B
PCI\VEN_1B4B&DEV_9220&CC_010601
PCI\VEN_1B4B&DEV_9220&CC_0106

The drivers installed are:
C:\Windows\system32\DRIVERS\mvs91xx.sys (File version: 1.2.0.1039, Size: 319KB, Date modified: 9/5/2013 6:47 PM)
C:\Windows\system32\DRIVERS\mvxxmm.sys (File version: 1.0.0.1204, Size: 16.2KB, Date modified: 9/5/2013 6:47 PM)
C:\Windows\system32\mv91xxm.dll (File version: 1.0.0.3, Size: 35.5KB, Date modified: 9/30/2013 1:51 AM)


1) To install this driver, simply download this file to a folder where you can easily find it, such as the Desktop or Downloads.

2) Right click it and select "Extract..." to use the Windows built-in .zip file handler or whatever command you normally use to unzip files if you are using WinZip, WinRAR, 7-Zip, or similar.

3) Double-click to open the folder that is just created, which will be named the same as the zip file was.

4) Double-click the file named "drvSetup.exe". The installation is quick.

Done!

You should now see the proper Marvell SATA 6GB Controller listed in Device Manager under "Storage Controllers".





Driver file attached:

IMPORTANT EDIT: After I made this post, I discovered a newer version of the Marvell SATA 6GB Controller talked about in this post. It is dated 2015 versus the 2013 driver I originally posted.

However, I will leave that older driver attached here also. The newer driver (2015) is installed by the "Right-click on the device in Device Manager and select "Update driver software..." and browse to the folder where the files are located" method. I have to install this older driver first for the device to even show up in Device Manager.

So in short, I have to install the 2013 driver then the 2015 one.

To be clear, the 2013 driver attached here is named Marvell_1.2.0.1039-WHQL.zip and the newer 2015 driver is named Marvell_SATA_V1.2.0.1047 - Windows 10.zip.
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:)

 

Windows 10 installation - error storahci.sys

I am experiencing a similar problem:

Mainboard: Asus P6X58D Premium

I have 2 Samsung SSD's connected to the 6GB/s Marvell Controller and 2 HDD's Connected to the normal slower controller.

Specs:

• Storage
  Intel ICH10R controller
  
  6 xSATA 3.0 Gb/s ports
  
  Intel Matrix Storage Technology Support RAID 0,1,5,10
  
  Marvell® PCIe SATA 6Gb/s controller*
  
  - 2 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports
  
  * These SATA ports are for data hard drives only. ATAPI devices are not supported.
  

• Chipset
  Intel® X58 / ICH10R
  

I frequently get the same DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (storahci.sys) error.

I can't even uninstall software anymore without it completing uninstall and resulting in the BSOD.

I upgraded from Windows 8.1, where i did not experience those problems.

Will I have to buy a newer Mainboard?

There seem to be no drivers out there for Windows 10, by Asus, Intel and Marvell

Bios was and is set to AHCI...

 

Windows 10 restarts after putting to sleep?

Hi, Just a heads up for anyone having this problem, the marvel controller that controls SATA 6, driver does not work with win 10. So I had to remove the HDD's from that controller and hook them up to the SATA 3 and disable the Marvel controller altogether.
The Asus website support does not have a driver for windows 10 and apparently the Sabertooth x58 motherboard does not support win 10 also. But by doing the above it seems to work.

Thanks for your help.

Ralph

 

Thank you! Worked well. I have the IO Crest SI-PEX40071 SATA controller and could not even get Windows to recognize it (even with the supplied drivers). The updated driver (Marvell_SATA_V1.2.0.1047) did not work for me to begin with (kept encountering "Installation Failed" error message) so I used the old driver first and then forced Windows to update via the Device Manager.

 

If you're using SSD as a system drive check to see the drive doesn't appear in the Safely Remove USB menu and that it marks the drive for optimization in the Optimize Drives wizard and not mark it for defragmentation in other words that it can use the trim command as Marvel seem to have a problem with it especially the older drivers including the V1.2.0.1047 one

 

The driver installation went quite well and easy. Would have otherwise spent hours getting this right. Thanks.

 

If you don't plan to use Marvell RAID (it's slow anyway), install "Standard SATA AHCI controller driver" instead - unlike Marvell one, it supports TRIM for SSD (and Intel SSD Toolbox software too).

 

I had some performance issues with the Marvell SATA controller on my Gigabyte motherboard in Windows 10. I just disabled the Marvell SATA controller in the BIOS and connected all drives to the Intel SATA ports instead which are stable. Problem solved!

 

"However, I believe this Marvell driver will work fine on many platforms other than EVGA motherboards". An accurate statement for sure. It has always irritated me that my ASUS P7P55D-E Pro MOBO never had the right driver support for the Marvell controller chip. Your method worked a treat and for the first time since I built my PC I have both Intel Raid and Marvell AHCI controllers running together.

This comes in very handy as I replace my aging Vertex4 SSDs running in striped RAID 0, with new Samsung SATAIII SSD using the Marvell SATA slots. Thanks for this!

 

a big THANK YOU for this driver. I'm using multiple 88SE930 on my file server and the old driver presents each port with the same number with the same UniqueID attribute to windows (server 2016), preventing the creation of StorageSpaces. Your newer 2015 driver fixed this issue and Storage Spaces works perfectly! The mistery is WHY winupdate doesnt update the driver himself as this is a known issue for many HBA controller.

 

Lifesaver, have some cheap startech 4x sata controller with same marvell chip for ssd caching (works suprisingly well on 2x 3tb working hdd's!)...had to find something after latest fall creators update killed pretty much every 'puter in the house...*Mad*Mad*Mad*Mad*Mad*Mad*Mad*Mad*Mad*Mad*Mad*Mad*Mad*Mad*Mad*Mad*Mad*Mad*Mad*Mad*Mad*Mad reinstalling win10 from scratch on every machine apart from one 10 year old clevo that had been retired (never throw out old computers! Making win10 usb on android didn't work!)..

 

I created an account just to second this post! I'm using an ASROCK EP2C602 server board, which has a marvell 9230 controller for 4 of it's 6 SATA 3 ports. I mucked around with at least five different driver versions for the marvell controller. None worked and the controller would constantly drop drives, it was driving me nuts.

The final solution for this board, for posterity at the least, was to apply the latest firmware from asrock's website (requires a bootable usb and all that nonsense). After that, I went to the device manager, hit the properties on the "Marvell 92xx SATA 6G Controller" and went to the driver tab. I uninstalled the driver and selected the "delete the driver software" checkbox to make sure it wouldn't auto-reinstall that driver. It took a few reboots to uninstall all the various driver versions I had tried. I finally got to the point where that item no longer showed up in the device manager, and now the ports work great!

Like valihrach said, don't bother with the marvell drivers! You lose any RAID functionality, but gain so much stability! Stable drives + storage pools = way better than slow hardware RAID and a controller dropping drives *Smile