Felix' Blog » bios http://fetzig.org About open source, education and random other Stuff Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:33:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 A7N8X-E Deluxe and 1TB SATA Disks http://fetzig.org/2009/08/11/a7n8x-e-deluxe-and-1tb-sata-disks/ http://fetzig.org/2009/08/11/a7n8x-e-deluxe-and-1tb-sata-disks/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:19:59 +0000 Felix Kaechele http://fetzig.org/?p=58 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!

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