Windows 7 does not find Blu-ray drivers

My board has yet a third Marvell eSata controller . That one I have disabled. But I use the Marvell SAS/SATA controller to get better throughput when using single drives, as I am using 5 of the 6 Intel SATA ports - 4 for RAID and the 5th for the LG BD/DVD drive.

Having a separate controller gets better performance, and I don't get the Marvell boot BIOS because I'm booting off the Intel controller - the mobo automatically disables the boot messages but the controller is active in the OS.

Unfortunately on my system, the Intel controller has four ports and they are all used, i.e., three for my RAID and one for my operating sytem disk. So, I have to hook the Blu-ray to the Marvell.

I installed just the Marvell driver (from what the Intel site called "the floppy") right from the folder I downloaded it into. It worked fine, the controller showed up and then so did the Lite-On Blu-ray device. So, all is well. Given the popularity of the Marvell RAID controller, I am surprisd Microsoft does include these drivers in W7.

Excellent! Happy Windows 7-ing ...