Silicon Image Mainboard Drivers For Mac
Hmmm, I'm trying to get these drivers to work with a MSI K8N NEO4 mainboard. Because I don't want the Nforce4 to kill my harddisks, I'll try to manage if I can hook them up at the Silicon Image 3114 SATA 5-6-7-8 ports. The problem is that the onboard si3114 chipset is flashed with a softraid5 bios, and thus I'm forced to use some kind of a RAID-configuration.
Offcourse OSX will never recognize the RAID-set (even if it's a JBOD). So, I'm wondering, would it be possible to flash the onboard Silicon Image Bios with a 3114 IDE-Bios, and use the 4 ports like regular SATA-ports? I've taken a look at the site of MSI, and the bios for the si3114 is bundeld with the regular system-BIOS. I've also tried to use the updflash utility from Silicon Image, but that's only for add-on cards.
I think, if we manage to succesfully flash the onboard bios, this might be a great solution for all of the Nforce4 victims with S-ATA drives, now if I could only find a way how. RAID or IDE rom from Sil is just one of the moduls inside system BIOS file. You can look and replace it with CBROM for AWARD and with AMIBCP for AMI.
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But no 100% garanty that it works for any boards. I replaced RAID rom on my Tyan K8W (2875) with new version from Sil and after flashing new BIOS got soft RAID5. I think other way is posible. I looked at your system BIOS file W7125NMS.1B0 for K8N Neo4 Platinum (PCB 1.0) and i can see Sil modul 5209.bin I can replace it any version. But i can't test it.
Silicon Image Video Card Driver
I'm going to try this method on my K8N-DL.