Sil 3112 SATA chipset problems

[Bfavre444]

I just got a Buslink SATA Cardbus for my dell laptop. This SATA adapter uses the common Sil 3112 SATA chipset. I'm connecting a Bytecc SATA enclosure to this cardbus card. When I turn on the drive, Windows XP SP2 totally freezes for good.

I've spent about 8 hours trying to find new drivers, reading resources online, and trying almost everything, and still Windows just freezes when it tries to mount the drive. The way it freezes is that when it tries to mount, it actually ramps up the CPU usage all the way to 100% and then the system freezes.

The weird thing is I thought most PCI sata adapters use the Sil 3112 chipset also (not just notebook cardbus adapters) so it's used by many people I figure.

Do any of you have a SATA PCI card that uses the Sil 3112 chipset and had any problems?

Thanks.

 

[boyRacer]

i don't have an adapter but my board has it onboard.

never had any problems with it though. what's the latest driver you have?

 

[Bfavre444]

Originally posted by: bR
i don't have an adapter but my board has it onboard.

never had any problems with it though. what's the latest driver you have?

I'm using the latest Sil 3112 drivers version 1.2.0.57. (this is the SATALink version, not raid of course)

 

[Haden]

I had problems with sil3112 when I tried integrating drivers to unattended XP CD (so no F6 required).
System would freeze during install when trying to list partitions, however, after trying 3 or 4 versions, I've managed to find ones that work - drop me message and I can email them to you.

 

[Bfavre444]

I tried to flash the firmware of the Sil 3112 but since this is on a PCMCIA card for my laptop, the computer doesn't recognize the card yet in DOS (with a boot disk). Does anyone know how to flash a PCMCIA card before going into Windows?