# SATA AHCI Driver GSoC - Week 1 Update

DevFeed: [SATA AHCI Driver GSoC - Week 1 Update](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/sata-ahci-driver-gsoc-week-1-update-33013.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/blogs/sata-ahci-driver-gsoc-week-1-update/>)

Published: 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Front Page on ReactOS Website](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/front-page-on-reactos-website.md>)

Topics: [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Windows](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/windows.md>), [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>)

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## AI overview

A GSoC contributor reports on the first week of work toward SATA AHCI driver support in ReactOS. The week focused mainly on setting up a build environment and test bed, studying the NT 5.2 storage stack and AHCI documentation, and presenting a work plan.

## Source excerpt

To be honest I started working on project after my college finals i.e. 27th of May, Before that I tried to setup build environment and test bed in virtual machine running win2k3. I was totally new to NT driver development so I started my journey with reading storage stack model and NT driver development guide. In the first week I explored storage stack of NT 5.2 completely and presented my work plan to my mentor.