NEW Silicon Image 3x12 SATA RAID driver on Windows Update?!

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited March 2004 in Science & Tech
I noticed today an update for the 3x12 SATA RAID driver has appeared on Windows Update. It seems to include the ATI 436E Serial ATA Controller under the same package aswell. I'm currently using the latest official release from Silicon Image, v1.0.0.40 and can't seem to find out what version the new driver on the Windows Update site is. Why? Because I can't seem to install it.

There has been some recent changes on the Silicon Image downloads section regarding this driver, but no newer version than v1.0.0.40 seems to be present.

Anyone have any more joy installing this Windows Update... er, update?

Comments

  • hypermoodhypermood Smyrna, GA New
    edited March 2004
    There version is reported to be v1.0.0.47. I have not seen a successful post of an install on any forum yet.
  • ginipigginipig OH, NOES
    edited March 2004
    This one?
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited March 2004
    That link don't work bud.
  • ginipigginipig OH, NOES
    edited March 2004
    Silicon Image Customer Resource center wrote:
    Article Number 10469

    I used the "Product Search and Support" field, and entered in 3112a. It's the article that was published on 3/9/2004.
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited March 2004
    Yeah, like I said there has been a bit of a shake up on that page, but no updated driver seems to have been posted. v1.0.0.40 is still listed.
  • ginipigginipig OH, NOES
    edited March 2004
    Bummer. I'm all for new drivers.
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited March 2004
    I don't know what Microsoft are up to but hopefully they'll take the time to sort out the current problem on Windows Update, whether it be with the driver itself, or whatever. Presuming then that this new driver is in fact, newer than v1.0.0.40, hopefully more sources will start distributing it soon.

    Cheers
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    This isn't related to the SATA drivers but I just checked windows update and there is something new related to the audio drivers:

    NVIDIA Corporation multimedia software update released on March 03 2004.



    NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio Codec Interface
    NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) MCP Audio Processing Unit (Dolby(R) Digital)
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited March 2004
    csimon wrote:
    This isn't related to the SATA drivers but I just checked windows update and there is something new related to the audio drivers:

    NVIDIA Corporation multimedia software update released on March 03 2004.

    NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio Codec Interface
    NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) MCP Audio Processing Unit (Dolby(R) Digital)
    Oh yeah, so there is, they must have just been put up, as I checked Windows Update only a few hours ago and it wasn't there. I don't recommend anyone installs it though, as typically it won't contain a parallel/relating version of the nForce Control Panel which will probably result in it not working. I would just wait till Nvidia releases the whole package. Thanks for the heads up C'.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    Spinner wrote:
    Oh yeah, so there is, they must have just been put up, as I checked Windows Update only a few hours ago and it wasn't there. I don't recommend anyone installs it though, as typically it won't contain a parallel/relating version of the nForce Control Panel which will probably result in it not working. I would just wait till Nvidia releases the whole package. Thanks for the heads up C'.
    uh oh ...i did but i haven't rebooted yet.
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited March 2004
    csimon wrote:
    uh oh ...i did but i haven't rebooted yet.
    It doesn't matter mate, you can just roll back the driver if it doesn't work.
  • ginipigginipig OH, NOES
    edited March 2004
    I'm using a diff mobo, but Windows.Update.site recently offered the nvidia audio drivers as well. They work fine on my a7n8x-D.

    My unique situation:
    During a fresh XP install, I chose to install the drivers manually, instead of using the setup.exe that came with the nforce package -> hence, no Control.Panel. I extracted the folder and directed Add.hardware.Wizard to it.
  • skunkcabbageskunkcabbage Oxfordshire, UK
    edited March 2004
    ****DON'T DON'T DON'T INSTALL THE VERSION ON WINDOWSUPDATE****

    I've got an Asus A7N8X-D, with Sil3112A SATA controller, connected to an SATA Maxtor drive. I selected to install the updated(?) driver from windowsupdate, and after a reboot I was greeted with the new hardware detected dialog. I let windows automatically select the "correct" driver (after all how am I supposed to know where WindowsUpdate has put the version it downloaded), and got a cryptic "RAID device: data is invalid" message.

    OK, I thought, I'll just reinstall the old version - 10040 - but I got the same error message each time, and the yellow exclamation mark of doom under device manager. So I tried the drivers from the Asus driver disk, same "data invalid" message - eventually had to do a system restore.

    So I wouldn't touch these "new" drivers with a bargepole. :mad2:
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited March 2004
    skunkcabbage wrote:
    ****DON'T DON'T DON'T INSTALL THE VERSION ON WINDOWSUPDATE****

    I've got an Asus A7N8X-D, with Sil3112A SATA controller, connected to an SATA Maxtor drive. I selected to install the updated(?) driver from windowsupdate, and after a reboot I was greeted with the new hardware detected dialog. I let windows automatically select the "correct" driver (after all how am I supposed to know where WindowsUpdate has put the version it downloaded), and got a cryptic "RAID device: data is invalid" message.

    OK, I thought, I'll just reinstall the old version - 10040 - but I got the same error message each time, and the yellow exclamation mark of doom under device manager. So I tried the drivers from the Asus driver disk, same "data invalid" message - eventually had to do a system restore.

    So I wouldn't touch these "new" drivers with a bargepole. :mad2:
    Well my NF7-S just spat them out, but I just tried it on my mums A7N8X-D and I got the same problems you had. However uninstalling the drivers and re-installing v1.0.0.40 resolved the problem. I just had to make sure Windows couldn't get access to the Internet to try and download the newer dodgy ones while it re-detected the hardware.

    Spinner wrote:
    Oh yeah, so there is, they must have just been put up, as I checked Windows Update only a few hours ago and it wasn't there. I don't recommend anyone installs it though, as typically it won't contain a parallel/relating version of the nForce Control Panel which will probably result in it not working. I would just wait till Nvidia releases the whole package. Thanks for the heads up C'.
    With regard to the recently newly posted nForce audio drivers on Windows Update - On my mums rig, upon originally installing the OS and nForce drivers and what not, after I had installed the lateset nForce drivers I then downloaded the (at the time) latest audio drivers off Windows Update. This (as I touched on earlier) resulted in the nForce control panel not working. But now after installing the even newer audio drivers that have just been made available on Windows Update, they now allow me to access the nForce control panel again. So they should be safe to install.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    equito comes thru once again! http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11477
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