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1. Silicon image 3124 ide install#
2. Silicon image 3124 ide drivers#
3. Silicon image 3124 ide update#
4. Silicon image 3124 ide driver#
5. Silicon image 3124 ide upgrade#

This card did not work for me, but for someone else on Vogons it apparantly did:

Silicon image 3124 ide upgrade#

Only tested port 3 so far.Īs for your current card, the bios upgrade suggestion might help, though never tried this myself. It is a "SiI3114CTU" chip, SATAraid (not SATAlink), though it might be possible to downgrade the bios to a 'basic' nonraid SATAlink card (?).Ĭard production date from January 2013 it seems.

Silicon image 3124 ide drivers#

So hence you got chipset 'IDE' drivers, which later evolved to full IDE/AHCI/RAID drivers like Intel which in terms of features are quite decent, but reliability is lacking.I got this card to boot DOS 6.20(2.5Gb IDE disk via IDE-SATA adapter!), and even QEMM and DOOM2 seems to be working fine with it(some cards/models create issues with these programs, while booting looks ok): Thus, then the Microsoft drivers won't handle this type of device, and proprietary drivers need to be installed to service the SCSI device.

Silicon image 3124 ide driver#

If they don't, they likely shouldn't ship a driver at all it makes little sense for the users since it likely adds zero benefit over the standard Microsoft AHCI/IDE drivers which should work on any IDE/AHCI compliant hardware.Īs soon as you set the controller to RAID in the system BIOS, the hardware will not register as 'IDE' controller anymore, but rather as SCSI controller, which is the interface used for RAID cards. Honestly, it is kind of appalling to see that chipset vendors like AMD, but also others like Silicon Image and JMicron, do not release TRIM-capable chipset drivers. So many AMD users may have installed AMD chipset driver along with the CD that came with the motherboard, and won't have TRIM capability, and blame the AMD SATA controller for their degraded SSD performance.

Silicon image 3124 ide update#

Same for people running AMD and other chipsets, but there is no update for them which gives those vendor specific drivers TRIM support yet. Well even if you run in AHCI or IDE mode on the Intel controller, you wouldn't have TRIM capability if you ran Windows 7 with Intel drivers prior to the 9.6 version where they added the TRIM support.

Silicon image 3124 ide install#

That doesn't mean you can't have TRIM on boards with these chipsets just do not install the chipset driver or revert back to Microsoft AHCI/IDE driver, which DOES support TRIM.įreeBSD and Linux are the only OS where TRIM over RAID works, afaik. Intel and Microsoft are the only driver brands which have TRIM-capable Windows drivers so if you install nVidia/AMD/ALi/ULi/VIA chipset driver then you won't have any TRIM capability at all no matter whether you run in AHCI mode or not. But you can't make a RAID of the SSDs and still have TRIM capability. The AHCI drivers are used also when the controller is set to RAID mode in BIOS, and follows a different I/O path than RAID configurations, where TRIM support is absent.Īs such, you can use RAID on HDDs and have your SSD on your Intel controller together, running in RAID mode, while still having TRIM capability on the SSD. No, that's a common misconception, partly caused by Intel's confusing press release. The Windows Silicon Image RAID drivers make it one device, but under FreeBSD you can do your own (more advanced) software RAID or use directly with ZFS. So using this SSD on FreeBSD would get you 4 devices: /dev/ada0 through /dev/ada3 for example one device for each NAND controller essentially this is just a 4-port SATA controller with on each port a Sandforce SSD. That makes FreeBSD the only OS where this SSD receives TRIM support you can't get TRIM for this SSD/controller on Windows as Silicon Image' drivers are quite bad and no Windows drivers from any vendor support TRIM on RAID yet. It should also be great for IOps.ĭue to being Silicon Image, these controllers enjoy TRIM support under FreeBSD. Then it could do 1800MB/s sequential read and 600 - 1600MB/s sequential write, depending on whether the data is compressible or not.

Then that new SiI controller should support 4圆Gbps SATA ports, so you can use 6Gbps SSDs based on SF-2000.

What OCZ needs is a newer controller chip from Silicon Image that is native PCI-express, and also PCI-express 2.0, where 4 lanes equals 2.0GB/s. Interesting, but the biggest problem is the controller it uses a Silicon Image SiI-3124 PCI-X controller with 1066MB/s maximum throughput converting it to a PCI-express 1.0 x4 interface using a bridge chip, which leaves 1.0GB/s throughput, though due to this not being native PCIe solution you may lose a bit of latency and throughput as well.