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Topic: Silicon Image 3112A SATARaid BIOS Version 4.2.47 I/O Flex PSA150

The card is the popular I/O Flex PSA150.  The BIOS on bootup states SiI 3112A SATARaid BIOS Version 4.2.47
- The interesting thing is the drivers that ship with the card do not work.  <F6> and you get an error reading the text file. 
- You also get hundreds of other drivers on the mini CD that comes with the card that have nothing to do with it.
- When I did the slip stream, it recognized the drive on install, and did the text part of the install fine.  When it rebooted, I got a BSOD
- Googling around I noticed a lot of people did strange things to get it to work.  I happened across a post where a guy said the problem is the wrong driver.  I followed his link and downloaded the driver:  www.siliconimage.com/docs/3112A_x86_win_idvr-12057.zip
- I started over with an unmodified XP SP2 CD and did <F6> with the above driver.  It came up fine and gave me two choices to select from.  I selected the one that matched my BIOS exactly.  XP installed fine.
- I went out to the Microsoft update site.  They had a new hardware driver available.  I answered yes for the update.  It worked fine as well.

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Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATARaid BIOS Version 4.2.47 I/O Flex PSA150

Hi, welcome to DriverPacks.

That is quite interesting.
I will look at the mass storage pack and see what I put in there.
I will also look at windows update site, because I think these WU drivers will work regardless of which BIOS that thing uses. If we can reduce the number of drivers for silicon, I would.

I may ask you to test a mass storage testpack with the changes in it, and hope you will when I make it available.
Thanks for the help.

When you reply in another topic, please hit the subscribe link. (or bookmark it.. hit the link is easier..)
This board does not automatically subscribe you and you cannot change the default. sad

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Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATARaid BIOS Version 4.2.47 I/O Flex PSA150

- I subscribed. 
- The drive though is on a live machine, so I'm not sure that I test so easily. 
- I learned about the driver while going though many threads of woe about people having the problem with the Silicon Image chip set, which is much more than just the stand-alone cards.  It's very frequently built into motherboards.  It's a pretty common problem.
- I agree, the MS driver would be the one to get.  I generally don't do the hardware upgrades from the MS update site because often they hose the machine.  However, now was the time to find out since I didn't have it in operation yet.  It worked perfectly.  It may configure itself to a range of Silicon Image SATA adapters.
- However, when I go into device manager, I see the yellow question by it that says Raid Controller.  It says there is no driver installed, but when you go to details it shows: PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_61121095&REV_02\4&2B96F39&0&48F0
- It shows nothing on any of the other pages.  You probably know more what that means than I.

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Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATARaid BIOS Version 4.2.47 I/O Flex PSA150

Hi
you post the HWID for sataRAID driver, and the link to the driver is a NON-raid driver.
(; This INF file installs the Silicon Image Serial ATA non-Raid driver for the)

The driver we have for the RAID is located in D\M\S5.
In the testpack I have uploaded this month there are no Bios variants mentioned for this Raid-driver.

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(Link killed) DP_MassStorage_wnt5_x86-32_803RC3.7z
This testpack has the following changes when we compare to released mass storage driver pack.

[N-TM] loads after other Nvidia
[N-TM] contains two extra abit HWIDs
INI Fixes by Overflow for server and windows 2000.
INI fix for Symmpi for XP.
INI fix for [N-6] by OverFlow

S8A,  Silicon removed
V3, Via updated

Silicon sections now in THREE blocks so that a user can easily move these around or remove these from INI.
Silicon image load order changed
first softraid, then raid, then base-ide

It does not yet fix AHCI. (an intel driver, we will probably roll back to an older version with same HWIDs.)
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Because there are quite a few changes in INIyou should NOT re-stream an old source.
Use a fresh copy of a source you have not yet used DriverPacks on.
Make another copy of that to fall back to..

Now, if this testpack does not work, I will ask you do the following.
Unpack this testfile.

Open the mass storage.INI, and move section [s5] under all other.
Close, and save changes.
Then recompress. (select INI and D, rightclick to run 7zip.)
7z, ultra, lzma, 256wordLength, compact.
Use the changed file to stream a new copy.

Test.
And if THAT works, I will want to know.

I would also like to know what the DEFAULT setting in the chip's BIOS is.
I've always assumed RAID is the most used default, but in LAPTOPS we see that the chip was set to IDE-mode.

Users can move the sections (and delete them..)
We know that the driver we put last in INI loads last, and for some reason windows setup sometimes decides that this one is the best match..
(despite specific HWIDS..)
So, we have to make people aware that the mass storage DriverPacks IN can be edited to change load order.

We do have FAQ about trimming  mass storage..
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If you are in a real hurry, you CAN unpack the mass storage DriverPacks, and tell windows to use the driver in D\M\S5.

I would like it VERY much that you test the pack I link to, and if you have to change load order to make it work so be it, but you would learn something, and we will learn something as well.
Please help us help you.
Your first post was thought out and helpful.

Last edited by Jaak (2008-04-12 01:00:48)

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Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATARaid BIOS Version 4.2.47 I/O Flex PSA150

>you post the HWID for sataRAID driver, and the link to the driver is a NON-raid driver. (; This INF file installs the Silicon Image Serial ATA non-Raid driver for the)<

You are probably right, though it didn't prompt that way on install.  However, the device manager behavior was certainly peculiar.

What I did next, was to go into device manager and do an update driver.  I put the original CD that did NOT work during the install.   There are literally hundreds of drivers for all different make pieces of hardware.  It found something and installed it.  With great trepidation, I rebooted.  It came up fine.  The yellow ! was gone in device manager and on the driver it said:
Silicon Image SiL 3112 SATARaid Controller
Silicon Image
1.0.0.51
PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_61121095&REV_02\4&2B96F39&0&48F0

Next I went to the Microsoft update site to see if it wanted to replace the driver.  It did.  I opted to take the hardware install, and deselected XP SP3 so as not to inject too much carnage.  It rebooted, I went into Device Manager, only this time no yellow !.
Silicon Image
8/17/2007
1.0.62.0
PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_61121095&REV_02\4&2B96F39&0&48F0

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Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATARaid BIOS Version 4.2.47 I/O Flex PSA150

thanks.
for Sil 3112R  RAID we currently have 02/01/2007, 1.0.60.0 in the testpack.

for Silicon 3112 IDE compatibility mode we have 04/13/2007, 1.3.68.2

Conclusion,
If you have a series of these machines, you have to put the raid below the IDE, or remove the IDE section [s4].
I will get to WU and update the [S5] driver.

Last edited by Jaak (2008-04-09 10:25:26)

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Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATARaid BIOS Version 4.2.47 I/O Flex PSA150

can you please download the HWID's tool in my signature and run the following line from teh folder created by extracting?

devcon hwids =SCSIAdapter > temp.txt & notepad temp.txt

If you can Post the result here it may help us to resolve this issue for you and others...

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Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATARaid BIOS Version 4.2.47 I/O Flex PSA150

PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_61121095&REV_02\4&2B96F39&0&48F0
    Name: Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller
    Hardware ID's:
        PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_61121095&REV_02
        PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&SUBSYS_61121095
        PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&CC_010400
        PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&CC_0104
    Compatible ID's:
        PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112&REV_02
        PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_3112
        PCI\VEN_1095&CC_010400
        PCI\VEN_1095&CC_0104
        PCI\VEN_1095
        PCI\CC_010400
        PCI\CC_0104
1 matching device(s) found.

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Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATARaid BIOS Version 4.2.47 I/O Flex PSA150

This testpack got released as version 804

DP_MassStorage_wnt5_x86-32_8044Test.7z

 '8.04',
'11 April 2008',
'INI change; sorted Silicon Image sections into THREE blocks'.
'|Marked blocks Silicon Image softRAID (aka RAID-5) and Silicon Image RAID and Silicon Image NON-RAID'.
'|NON-RAID load after softRAID-5 and RAID.'.
'|[S8A] silicon Image removed (see [S8]).',
'INI Fixes in [C1], [C3], [D1], [L2], [N-6] (OverFlow.) '.
'|INI fix, [S8] supports HWIDS we had in [S8A]',
'[S2] from 11/15/2006, 1.2.26.0 to 11/13/2007, 1.2.30.0'.
'|[S4] from 04/13/2007, 1.3.68.2 to 06/28/2007, 1.3.70.0'.
'|[S7A] from 11/02/2004, 1.0.0.8 to 10/03/2007, 1.0.21.0'.
'|[S8] from 08/22/2006, 1.3.20.0 to 11/20/2007, 1.3.21.0'.
'|[V] from 07/12/2007, 5.1.6000.562 to 01/22/2008, 5.1.6000.574 [5.16a] (JakeLD)'

and, it has something what could perhaps fix intel AHCI when AHCI is set in BIOS.

11 april, update by JakeLD (from 8043 to 8044 testversion)

Last edited by Jaak (2008-04-13 04:10:17)

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Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATARaid BIOS Version 4.2.47 I/O Flex PSA150

Hi,

updated to 8044

[V] from 07/12/2007, 5.1.6000.562 to 01/22/2008, 5.1.6000.574 [5.16a]

[edit Jaak]  I updated the link to new version created by jakeLD.

Last edited by Jaak (2008-04-12 00:30:17)

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Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATARaid BIOS Version 4.2.47 I/O Flex PSA150

Hi,

Thanks JakeLD.
I'll look at the update.
I should update the excell files one of these days. smile

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Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATARaid BIOS Version 4.2.47 I/O Flex PSA150

well there is something interesting about sil3112... on sil page the latest driver is 1.0.60.0 while if we go to windows update we get 1.0.62.0

anyway both drivers seems to work great with my mobo.  asus a7n8x deluxe rev1.04, 1008 bios modded with latest sil3112 rom.

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Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATARaid BIOS Version 4.2.47 I/O Flex PSA150

Um this thread is over a year old... and no longer relevant...

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