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Archive for August, 2009
FrOSCon Day 0
Aug 21st
Well there’s not much here yet. I also only met Jens Kühnel from our booth team. However my girlfriend (who brought me to St. Augustin) and her father were so kind to set up our booth (they just had fun setting up the booth, I didn’t actually ask them to) while I was organizing changes with the hotel staff.
Here’s the result:
I will try to get a blue table cloth for tomorrow and some other nice accessories to pimp the booth. We will also have some LiveCDs and laptops on display.
A7N8X-E Deluxe and 1TB SATA Disks
Aug 11th
I recently added my Samsung 1TB SATA disk to my home server which has an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe mainboard. The BIOS is rather 2004ish and I wasn’t actually suprised when my 1TB disk didn’t work on the old SATA150 Controller (namely a Silicon Image SiI3112). However the BIOS on the SATA Controller was also 2004ish and I already knew that Silicon Image publishes BIOS updates on their webpages. So I went ahead and downloaded a new BIOS. As I already killed my eSATA PCMCIA Card while updating it’s BIOS I decided to do it right this time 
I found out that the BIOS needs to be embedded in the mainboard’s BIOS. So I downloaded CBROM and slipstreamed the new 2007ish SATA BIOS into it.
Here is what I came up with: C18E1013.BIN
Works like a charm for me, however I will not be responsible if this BIOS update kills your grandmother and eats your babies. USE AT YOUR OWN FUNRISK!
