Silicon Image 3112 + windows 7 = fail?

[ratdude747]

Problem: I'm trying to use one of my Supermicro X5DAL-tg2's Silicon Image 3112 SATA150 controllers with a WD caviar blue 320gb... and after installing the driver (the OS is already installed on an 80gb PATA), I've had no luck at all getting the drive to intialize (always returns "incorrect function", even using diskpart at the cmd line). I've tried forcing the drive to SATA 150... and I'm 95% sure the drive's in good shape (it was sitting on a shelf in a partial built until today).

Anybody else have bad luck with This controller (or the 3114 4 port version)? Or is it just me?

Edit- Even for a single drive, I wish I had a spare working 3ware card for this thing...

[Topcat]

Re: Silicon Image 3112 + windows 7 = fail?

its not just you. theres a reason I always disabled those controllers and used PCI ones. Horrible controllers, horrible drivers, and horrible performance.

[ratdude747]

Re: Silicon Image 3112 + windows 7 = fail?

its not just you. theres a reason I always disabled those controllers and used PCI ones. Horrible controllers, horrible drivers, and horrible performance.

Yeah. Come to think of it, IIRC Shovenose had the same thing happen with the 3114 chip on his Tyan S2885 (same chip, only with 4 ports).

It will wait then... until I get my next project built and a home for my tuner card made (it's occupying the slot where there used to be PCI-x 3ware card).

[brethin]

Re: Silicon Image 3112 + windows 7 = fail?

Thats one old ass controller to try and use with windows 7 but hey more power to ya for trying it. I used one with Windows XP x64 for several years and it worked fine but since its like 12 years old it would be a mirical if it worked with windows 7.

[ratdude747]

Re: Silicon Image 3112 + windows 7 = fail?

Thats one old ass controller to try and use with windows 7 but hey more power to ya for trying it. I used one with Windows XP x64 for several years and it worked fine but since its like 12 years old it would be a mirical if it worked with windows 7.

Well, it's built into the board... and silicon image had a chip specific 7 driver (and just for 7)... so I would have thought it would work.

Idea: I may be able to put it in RAID mode (in the board's main BIOS), use the RAID driver (as oppossed to the non-RAID base driver), and set the drive in firmware (secondary BIOS) as a single drive. Kinda back to front, yes, but it may be what I gotta do... I know that will nuke SMART monitoring (since the computer will see a silicon image drive, not a WD HDD), but perhaps that's what's called for.

[ratdude747]

Re: Silicon Image 3112 + windows 7 = fail?

Drive is indeed dead... I/O errors while using a PATA to SATA converter, and also on a system with intel SATA (HP D530).

RMA'ing the drive...

[goontron]

Re: Silicon Image 3112 + windows 7 = fail?

Drive is indeed dead... I/O errors while using a PATA to SATA converter, and also on a system with intel SATA (HP D530).

RMA'ing the drive...

ouch, how big was the drive?
is it just the GNU/BSD-er inside me or does windows 7 not seem to work worth a damn with hardware older than 2009?

[ddscentral]

Re: Silicon Image 3112 + windows 7 = fail?

is it just the GNU/BSD-er inside me or does windows 7 not seem to work worth a damn with hardware older than 2009?

Never had a problem with older hardware on Windows 7.
Windows 7 even takes some XP drivers .

The oldest driver which I've installed on 7 was a driver for onboard Intel video, last updated in 2003.

[ratdude747]

Re: Silicon Image 3112 + windows 7 = fail?

ouch, how big was the drive?
is it just the GNU/BSD-er inside me or does windows 7 not seem to work worth a damn with hardware older than 2009?

320gb. WD3200AAKS

Nah, win 7 works with 95% of my stuff.

[ratdude747]

Re: Silicon Image 3112 + windows 7 = fail?

replacement HDD came in a few days ago. Tried using the silicon image chip, worked great... a disk cloning later and all is well. For the past few days no hiccups or anything... actually this drive seems pretty snappy.

So to answer the title, no, Silicon image + windows 7 ≠ fail, but rather, any disk controller + a dead drive = EPIC fail .

[goontron]

Re: Silicon Image 3112 + windows 7 = fail?

replacement HDD came in a few days ago. Tried using the silicon image chip, worked great... a disk cloning later and all is well. For the past few days no hiccups or anything... actually this drive seems pretty snappy.

So to answer the title, no, Silicon image + windows 7 ≠ fail, but rather, any disk controller + a dead drive = EPIC fail .

lol. we have all had those days mate