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Heads up on Silicon Image 3726 chips on Multiports
If you’re building your own SATA II Raid and are upgrading to a Sonnet card that supports multiports….make sure you check you Silicon Images 3726 chip’s firmware on your multiports. I’ve been going round and round trying to get the right firmware, finally Silicon Image has posted it on their website. You have to use their Flash program on a PC. That is if you don’t have the 1.0114 firmware.
If you don’t have the right firmware problems include, software identifing the port as a 4726 without RAID, no drives in enclosure, disk utility shows SV-2000 device, performance and reliability problems.
Tim
Tim Langston
Cryin’ Out Loud Productions
Fort Wayne, IN
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Tim –
you are such a bigshot, building your own boxes. Since you are buying the Sonnet E4P card for this application that uses the Silicon Image chipset, just buy the damn Sonnet Fusion 500P chassis, that has the correct, matching
chip set for the port multipliers inside the box. There is a purple piece of paper that comes with the Sonnet E4P that outlines the firmware upgrade (if you don’t own a Fusion 500P chassis). Since the Fusion is only $499 retail, how much are you saving by doing a “build it yourself”.Bob Zelin
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I saved $1000. I have 8 drives and already had the boxes, I just needed the multiports. Something soooo easy as to update the firmware became a real nightmare. No one was willing to give me the correct firmware, the place I purchased the multiports said they had the correct firmware already flashed on them. AAh, AAh, AAh, by running the flash program I was able to see that firmware 1.1888 was currently residing on my chips, it should have been 1.0114. I just today got in my SATA controller for my 1x PCIe slot on my PC so I updated the firmware and all is well.
It was all a big mess until Silicon Image posted the correct firmware late last week. There’s no need to worry now since it’s up there. I’ll shut up.
Tim
Tim Langston
Cryin’ Out Loud Productions
Fort Wayne, IN
http://www.colproductions.com
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