updating Sata Controller Bios

[Yakyb]

i have bought 2 Sil 3114 Based PCI Sata controllers

they hang on boot with a 750 Gig drive attached.

looking at some other threads i have found it appears that a simple bios update should fix them so i went to
Sil Bios Page

and got the SiFlashtool and 5403 bios

went into command prompt

and used command
SiFlashtool /BusNum:01 /DevNum:09 /File:5403.bin

(bus 01 and dev 09 obtained from device manager)
and press enter nothing happens

i then used the command

SiFlashtool /v
to see all listed controllers

interestingly it only reports the onboard sil3112 controller

anyone have any ideas

 

[Dew]

Disable the onboard.

 

[Yakyb]

that just makes it say

'no silicon image storage controllers were detected'


dispite device manager saying there are 2

 

[asgards]

had similar issues with both biosflashers from sil-img webpage

it requires some device connected via controller to flash the sucker, but in reality when device is connected i cant flash bios, it just refuses to do so, or isnt able to do so, but when i disconnect device, it refuses to see controller and result is the same - no cigar

 

[Yakyb]

sorted it now thanks to FreeDOS

download the image of free dos

add the binaries (.bin) to the image along with UPDFLASH

burn image

load live cd

navigate to x:\bios (location of the bios on Live CD)

run updflash b5403.bin (then your device name read the readme that came with updflash)

enjoy

this is what i needed to do in order to set the sataraid controllers as plain sata controllers
and allowing over 500GB drives