Re: Asmedia 106x sata controller VERSUS Microsoft storage spaces controller

Norm Why wrote:
> I only want Asmedia 106x SATA controller to be in control of my hardware. 
> The Microsoft storage spaces controller won't go away, defeats Asmedia 106x 
> SATA controller and then my SEDNA card doesn't work right. Microsoft 
> Onedrive is installed in MS Word
> 
> This is bad. I have all the launch codes stored in files. I don't want them 
> to leak into cyberspace. What was Bill Gates thinking?
> 
> Please, help save the planet. How do I remove Microsoft storage spaces 
> controller and Microsoft Onedrive from Word?

https://i.postimg.cc/YSXp95L1/HWplus-Storage-Spaces.gif

It turns out, I have an Asmedia 106x card to stick
in the Optiplex 780. The Optiplex normally has only
Intel, and the default mode is "RAID On". But, there's
only the one drive that comes with the refurbished
Optiplex, so there's no mirroring or anything.

Currently the Intel uses IAStoreAVC as a driver. Which
I've never heard of before. I thought maybe the machine
was an ICH10R, but the chipset seems to have a branding
of C236. Not that this is particularly important.

Now, what happens with the Intel RAID, is it ends
up in the same section as the Storage Spaces thing.

The reason for this, is the two items are both
"SCSI stack drivers".

Any time Windows has "stranger" storage devices, ones
that aren't ATA/ATAPI, the companies making the hardware
have the option of using a SCSI stack. One of the layers
presents a CDB (command data block) and this is then
translated by the driver, into something the (custom)
hardware controller can use as a directive.

The Asmedia card is higher up in Device Manager, as it's
not using a SCSI pseudo-stack, and is native AHCI.

*******

Well, what of Storage Spaces.

It turns out, Storage Spaces is similar to Veritas
Dynamic Disk. That's the "feature" in Disk Management,
when you fumbled the disk initialization in Disk Management,
you'd end up starting all over again, to clean up
your mistake.

Storage Spaces is similar to that, and is a replacement
for Dynamic Disk, amongst other things. DD could "span"
two disks for example, and Storage Spaces can do that too.

Storage Spaces has nothing to do with OneDrive or with
Bill Gates.

In Device Manager, there is no "Disable" control for SS.

If you locate "spaceport.sys" in System32\drivers, and
rename it to "spaceport.sys.bak", the OS does not like that
and at bootup, it will say "Attempting Repair...". And it
will put a new file with the same size, into the directory.

It is possible, turning off the Disk Defragmenter service,
or turning off VDS (virtual disk service) could affect it,
but then, that would also affect other aspects of your
OS operation. Again, not a good solution.

I could not see a policy in GPEDIT.msc to deal with it.

Summary: Sorry, no solution. It looks like it is an
          "integral part" of the OS, like a Veritas
          Dynamic Disk of long ago.

*******

There were even some Google suggested searches, which
when examined, didn't do what was claimed in the
Google teaser. Lots of articles tell you how
to split a Storage Spaces Mirror and make a single
disk out of it again. But absolutely none of them
address how to make the SS chunk, disappear from
the picture.

As long as the "Manage Storage Spaces" control panel
(Start : Run : control , to get to Control Panels),
does not show defined arrays of disks, you have
nothing to worry about. Similarly, SS setups
are not bootable, so a single disk cannot be
an SS setup and be booted.

A likely minimum SS setup, would be one boot HDD,
and two HDD to be used in Storage Spaces. Then the
"Manage Storage Spaces" dialog could be populated
with all the disks used. One HDD for booting (not in
the SS dialog), two HDD for the SS storage capability.

And this is not the same thing, as the percent storage
monitoring thing. Where if the disk is full, it'll offer to
delete stuff. I keep that disabled.

There is a GPEDIT for OneDrive, because I removed it
from one of my installs here. When you buy Office 365,
there are separate GPEDIT controls for managing stuff
like that. Maybe the feature is something like
"OneDrive For Business".

    Paul