Have any of you seen a patched BIOS for the Arima HDAM* motherboards that resolves the issue of the Sil 3114 SATA controller locking up when it sees a SATA II disk? (Even a disk jumpered to Sata I speeds.) Silicon Image released a BIOS fix for this, but since all of these motherboards use a Phoenix BIOS, it is not like an AMI or Award BIOS, where there are published methods for swapping out the broken chunk of BIOS (5.0.49) for the one with the fix (5.4.0.3). Sure, one could work around this on a single disk system, at least, with an IDE to SATA2 converter, or a PCI(X) Sata(2) controller, but reflashing the BIOS would be easier. Or it would be if Flextronics, who bought this product line from Arima, would issue another BIOS update :-(.
Thanks, David Mathog mat...@caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
