I've tried different PCI slots on the board, same issue. RAID card has latest 6.6.00 BIOS, and I'm using the latest 1.5.23 driver.ĮVEN BEFORE I upgraded to new parts, my system was having these issues. This is the 2nd RAID controller card, as the first one did the same thing, and it turned out to be defective (caps were leaking). Once I take the RAID card out, computer is fine. Win 7 hard freezes, locks up during the intial splash screen. Now everytime I boot up, the system takes forever getting past "Verifying DMI pool data" after POST. System ran great until I added the controller card. Motherboard, RAM, SSD, HDD's and PSU are all brand new - courtesy of Hot Deals.
#SILICON IMAGE 3124 INSTALL#
Welcome to the hassle of not buying a system pre-configured to work on the Mac 🙂2 x HITACHI Deskstar 7K1000.C 1 TB hdd's, running in RAID 1ġ x Silicon Image 3124 4-port sata-ii PCI soft/fake raid controllerįresh install Win 7 Ultimate 圆4 SP1 w/ all updates, latest drivers, including Intel RST. If everything works you can try adding the optical device. Disconnect the DVD burner so that you can just test the HDs.ħ. Verify that the 3726 units have firmware 1.0114 installed. Verify that the SiI-3124 card has BASE BIOS installed.ĥ. Install the SiI-3124 BASE 2.0.3 driver.Ĥ. Boot from the fresh install for all of the testing provided below.ģ.
#SILICON IMAGE 3124 MAC OS X#
The best way to proceed troubleshooting this issue is with a spare disk with a fresh copy of Mac OS X on it. There is no uninstaller from SI for the R5 driver. In addition, I find it is not reliable with Mac OS X.Ģ. Even if you get it to work it can destroy the boot blocks on a Mac OS X boot disk that is connected to it. I would not use the SI R5 driver on the Mac. Since that is not the case you may need to do the work yourself.ġ. If all of the items came from a single reputable Mac vendor you could be assured that the firmware on the Sil-3124 and the 3726 PM boards were up to date and matched. You are putting together a bunch of parts that may or may not work together. I see plenty of RAID towers of different sizes that resellers have configured w/optical drives mixed in with hard drives using these SI PM + RAID card configurations like I have.Īny tips or ideas on how one configures PM card to allow both optical drives and Hard drives to be connected, would be greatly appreciated.ĭoes anyone have experience configuring the 5-port Port multiplier w/Silicon Image 3726 chip connected to a Silicon Image RAID 3124 controller card ? using only 1 of the 4 eSATA cables on the RAID tower side)Īll the SI documentation I've seen seems to indicate that the configuration is automatic, but the only explicit examples of BIOS settings seem to be for PCs, not Macs. This eSATA to SAS SFF-8470 cable to connect the PM card in the RAID tower to one of my SiI3124 RAID cards? (ie. The Base driver software installs an executable in /usr/sbin and a script in /Library/StartupItems, but doesn't seem to have a GUI on the Mac, but from the documentation, it does seem to have a GUI on Windows platforms.ġ) To get the PM card to recognize that an optical drive is connected to it, do I need to configure the PM card while running on a PC first, then finish the RAID configuration on my Mac? I've installed both the Silicon Image SATARaid5Manager GUI and the Silicon Image Base driver for the 3124 cards. The SATARaid5Manager software from Silicon Image sees the 4 HDs coming in via the SAS cable, but no HDs show up, or optical drive, show up from the 5-port card. I know this is all PowerPC/PCI-X stuff and not Intel/PCI-e, but this forum seems to be the only one even discussing SI PM cards, so apologies in advance. The RAID tower itself will be connected to a PowerMac G5, via 2 4-port SI 3124 RAID cards. 4 HDs + the blu-ray drive are connected to the 5-port PM card, the other 4 HDs are connected via a SAS 4-port adapter. The PM card I have is inside a 9-bay RAID tower, configured w/8 1Tb hard drives and 1 Pioneer Blu-ray drive.
Silicon Image RAID 3124 controller card ? For more details, please contact your local Silicon Image. Does anyone have experience configuring theĥ-port Port multiplier w/Silicon Image 3726 chip connected to a as JBOD access require a port multiplier aware host controller such as SiI 3124-2 or.
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