I could use some help with getting this stupid controller to work with a single drive.
Currently it tells me "no valide drive" (yes with the "e") and the pc won't boot at all.
The mainboard BIOS only offers the options enabled and disabled. The "IDE" option I remember from onboard controllers in the good old days of IDE, or something to that effect, is not available.
It might work if I set the drive up as a JBOD array, but currently it's formating and will be checkdisked before U have time for that (runs on the nf4 controller atm).
Any other options to make it work?
Also which drivers should I use?
I suppose these:
SiI3114 64-bit Windows BASE Driver
http://www.siliconimage.com/docs/3114_x64_1.2.8.0_logo.zip
would be appropriate the only problem I have is this bit of info:
"Use this driver with the latest IDE BIOS to access non-RAID hard disk drives, CD-ROMs, CDRWs, DVD-ROMs, and DVD-RWs. Latest SiI3114 IDE BIOS:5.2.16"
Is a BIOS update strictly necessary and how the heck do you update the bios on a onboard controller? I seem to remember from the IDE days that it couldn't be done seperately from the mainboard BIOS and had to be supplied by the mainboard manufacturer, is this still true?
Currently it tells me "no valide drive" (yes with the "e") and the pc won't boot at all.
The mainboard BIOS only offers the options enabled and disabled. The "IDE" option I remember from onboard controllers in the good old days of IDE, or something to that effect, is not available.
It might work if I set the drive up as a JBOD array, but currently it's formating and will be checkdisked before U have time for that (runs on the nf4 controller atm).
Any other options to make it work?
Also which drivers should I use?
I suppose these:
SiI3114 64-bit Windows BASE Driver
http://www.siliconimage.com/docs/3114_x64_1.2.8.0_logo.zip
would be appropriate the only problem I have is this bit of info:
"Use this driver with the latest IDE BIOS to access non-RAID hard disk drives, CD-ROMs, CDRWs, DVD-ROMs, and DVD-RWs. Latest SiI3114 IDE BIOS:5.2.16"
Is a BIOS update strictly necessary and how the heck do you update the bios on a onboard controller? I seem to remember from the IDE days that it couldn't be done seperately from the mainboard BIOS and had to be supplied by the mainboard manufacturer, is this still true?