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!