Silicon Image 680-RAID Bios Update Problem

deathroksdeathroks
edited March 2004 in Hardware
Im trying to update my cards bios. I downloaded the zip file from silicon Images web site: 0680_x86_ribios_3210 and 3x12A_x86_dos_updflash-308
I created the 3.5 floppy, booted it up, ran updflash.exe selected my controler, then when im given 5 options 1-5, i dont know where to go from there. Nobody probebly has any idea WTF im talking about, but i hope someone out there knows, and happends to read this post. :=) Where does the rbios.bin and bbios.bin files come in? Im just lost. Someone please help me with some information.. Thanks

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  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited March 2004
    deathroks wrote:
    Im trying to update my cards bios. I downloaded the zip file from silicon Images web site: 0680_x86_ribios_3210 and 3x12A_x86_dos_updflash-308
    I created the 3.5 floppy, booted it up, ran updflash.exe selected my controler, then when im given 5 options 1-5, i dont know where to go from there. Nobody probebly has any idea WTF im talking about, but i hope someone out there knows, and happends to read this post. :=) Where does the rbios.bin and bbios.bin files come in? Im just lost. Someone please help me with some information.. Thanks

    That is taken from the Silicon Image site:
    The ####.bin is an abbreviated BIOS intended for integration into system BIOS. Do NOT flash this into an add-in card BIOS. The r####.bin file is the RAID BIOS and the b####.bin is the IDE BIOS.
    I haven't got an add-in card, so I can't see what you're talking about exactly. If you could post the 5 options you spoke of, I can walk you through it.

    Cheers
  • deathroksdeathroks
    edited March 2004
    Sure, here are the five options when i open updflash.exe
    1. write data to flash memory
    2. read data from flash memory
    3. check flash memory device
    4. erase the whole flash memory
    5. quit

    I select 1 to write and it says:

    starting flash memory (o-1ffff (hex)) :
    number of bytes to test (1-1024) :
    pattern (hex) :

    what do i do here?
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited March 2004
    I think you need to type this at the dos prompt (presuming your BIOS update file and BIOS update program are in the root of your floppy disk):

    updflash r3210.bin (then chose the product)

    You may have to do the same with the 'b3120.bin' file if you want to update the IDE side of things. I think that's how it works.

    Let me know how you get on.

    Cheers
  • deathroksdeathroks
    edited March 2004
    That did it! You are the best man! Thank you sooo much! WOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOO! :-)
  • deathroksdeathroks
    edited March 2004
    One more thing if i may, i got the drives and everything to work fine in IDE mode, but when i try a stripe raid, i will get to my desktop, my pc will hang for a sec, then i get a good old blue screen.
    0x00000050 c0xffffffff0
    0x00000000 0x8044f718 0x00000000
    page_fault_in_nonpaged_area
    address 8044f718 base at 80400000
    datastamp 3ee6c002-ntoskrnl.exe

    What the heck does that mean? I know its something to do with hardware that was recently added, but is there a fix or something?
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited March 2004
    Are you saying that you had Windows installed on one of the two hard drives, then tried to create a RAID 0 array using both those disks? Is that correct?

    If so then you can't do it like that. To create an array you need two blank disks, which once the array is created will appear as one large disk. You then need to create a partition then format it, then install Windows. You can't turn an existing single disk installation into a RAID 0 one. You need to start from scratch.

    Or am I totally misunderstanding what you've done?
  • deathroksdeathroks
    edited March 2004
    hi, no, all im trying to do is set some old 2g drives on a raid set-up with this 680-raid card i just bought. (and configured thanks to you :-)) Its weird, i make a striped raid set-up whatever that is, and it showed the drives volumes combined. It gives you the option to press F3 during boot-up to configur raid settings. And thats where i get the striped setup from. It also gives the option to mirror, and strip-mirror. Now with these disks.... Do i still need to get the raid set-up boot disks your talking about to setup an array? Lemme know, thanks.
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited March 2004
    deathroks wrote:
    hi, no, all im trying to do is set some old 2g drives on a raid set-up with this 680-raid card i just bought. (and configured thanks to you :-)) Its weird, i make a striped raid set-up whatever that is, and it showed the drives volumes combined. It gives you the option to press F3 during boot-up to configur raid settings. And thats where i get the striped setup from. It also gives the option to mirror, and strip-mirror. Now with these disks.... Do i still need to get the raid set-up boot disks your talking about to setup an array? Lemme know, thanks.
    When I said "two blank disks", I meant two blank hard disk drives. What I was saying is, you can't create a RAID 0 (striped) array with two disks and expect the operating system (windows) that was previously on just one of the disks to work. After creating the array you need to format the newly created partition and then re-install Windows on to it. You following me?

    Or, do you have three disks in total, one with the OS on, and the two 2gig drives you mentioned for creating the RAID array?

    I need some more information about your setup. Please post your full specs, what OS you are using and what channels all of your hard drives are on (e.g IDE1 , IDE3) with which one the operating system is currently installed onto.

    Cheers
  • deathroksdeathroks
    edited March 2004
    Ok, sure. I have P4 1.8g 512m rdram, 2 40g seagate barracudas, a cr burner and a dvd-rom. Those are all on my mainboards IDE. Now i have 2 2g old quantum drives hooked up to this 680-raid controller. These are the ones im trying to set up raid on. My windows/linux files are on one of the seagate drives. These old 2g drivers are blank the way it is right now. I would just like to make a 4g drive for storing things, then i dont have to switch back and forth between the 2 2g drives. But can i make a raid array just for storing mis files? Or can a raid only be set up on a drive ment to install windows? Lemme know. Thanks
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited March 2004
    deathroks wrote:
    Ok, sure. I have P4 1.8g 512m rdram, 2 40g seagate barracudas, a cr burner and a dvd-rom. Those are all on my mainboards IDE. Now i have 2 2g old quantum drives hooked up to this 680-raid controller. These are the ones im trying to set up raid on. My windows/linux files are on one of the seagate drives. These old 2g drivers are blank the way it is right now. I would just like to make a 4g drive for storing things, then i dont have to switch back and forth between the 2 2g drives. But can i make a raid array just for storing mis files? Or can a raid only be set up on a drive ment to install windows? Lemme know. Thanks

    Okay. That's cleared a few things up for me. Yes of course, you can just have a RAID array setup to just store files, it doesn't have to have an OS on it. What Windows version are you using, XP? Let me know and then run me through exactly what happens after you've created a RAID 0 array and try and boot into Windows.

    Cheers
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