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I tested the the 9.1.9.1005 driver on windows 10 and they work fine. I would recommend those. If your not having issues now you can keep using the older driver.
I also have an older driver that comes with Rapid storage Tech program. But the drivers work but the RST program does not start like it supposed to do. Which is basically a control panel to check the drive health status and to stop a drive to unplug it from the system while its still on which is also known as hot plugging.
When you upgrade to windows 10 from a previous windows like windows 7 or windows 8.1. IT will try to use the drivers you had from the previous windows you were running. It does not grab any old SATA driver from windows update for the very old SATA chipsets. Its been always the ones you installed yourself or from the driver cd you used when you had windows 7 or 8.1 that you upgraded to 10 from. Because why would Windows 10 use a driver that was made way back in 2009 or even 2012. This was way before Windows 10 was even thought of. I know the Windows 10 would install its own drivers for the chipsets that are couple years old at least. I would bet if you did a clean install now it would use a Standard AHCI driver instead of a Intel based one for both controllers you have now..
I did do a clean install, guess you did not remember what was read before. Either way upgrade or clean install, Windows 10 installed same drivers for the controllers, as it was different with Windows 8.1. All i am saying is with this thread starter does not take drivers for a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM to be recognized by the BIOS. If he or she CD-ROM not being recognized if they ever at least looked in BIOS this will tell a lot. If it it being recognized, then we go from there. Driver issue i believe would show yellow exclamation point in Device Manager.
Look at my first SATA controller in my post picture first one on my system controls SATA III Ports 0-5 this is where i put my HDD and SSD. Second controller in pic controls sSATA III ports 0-3 this is where i put my DVD ROM on.
Similar if you install a PCI card do you think it needs the driver to be recognized at first by the BIOS ?
Yeah it's possible Windows 10 does not have these specific drivers in it, but there is as said only 2 manufacturer's, AMD and Intel.