ABIT Serillel or SERILLEL2

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well, there was supposed to be a piece of paper that came with the adapter identifying it as Serillel-2 (in the case of a Serillel-2 adapter). the adapter that came with the IC7 board was Serillel-2 but I cannot speak for the other boards. no adapter came with the IS7 board as far as I know.

I'm sure there must be another way to identify it but my Serillel-2 adapter is installed on a drive in my case and I cannot easily see it. if need be, I can try to open things up and take a look at mine for any identifying marks on the case of the adapter but I'm going to have to wait to see if anyone else chimes in with a definite way of identifying the adapter.
 
in addition to my other response, if this adapter came with the IC7 MAX3 board, then I am sure it is Serillel-2...
 
The adaptor did not come with the IC7 MAX3, the guy at the store gave it to me as he said it should have come with the board.

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in addition to my other response, if this adapter came with the IC7 MAX3 board, then I am sure it is Serillel-2...

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Hi, John. There is a very easy way to tell if you're running an original Serillel adaptor on an IC7 (or any other Springdale/Canterwood motherboard):

1. Update your motherboard BIOS to the latest available (which you should be running anyways for the bugfixes).

2. If you hook up your PATA drive with the Serillel adaptor to either of the SATA connectors on the ICH5R -- and the motherboard is unable to detect the drives -- then you've got an original Serillel Adaptor, not a Serillel-2.

It is utterly *required* to use SIL-3611 chipset-based (Serillel-2) adaptors with the ICH5R and any motherboard BIOS release other than 1.0.

Furthermore, since the Version 1.0 BIOS was a complete
bug-factory and it is therefore mandatory to upgrade the BIOS, this also mandates the use of Serillel-2 Adaptors. There is no way around the situation.

Note: There are now third-party SATA/PATA Adaptors which also use the SIL-3611 chip (as found inside the Serillel-2). If you can find these, they are perfectly acceptable substitutes for the Abit Serillel-2.

However, please note that older Serillels and other older SATA/PATA adaptors use different chips than the SIL-3611. These will *never* work properly with the ICH5R -- so don't bother spending money on older Serillels or their clones.

Other wrinkles:

1. You cannot overclock the PCI Bus when using Serillel Adaptors. Lock your PCI Bus to 33MHz. This way you can overclock the motherboard to your heart's content and your Hard Disks won't magically "disappear".

2. You cannot use some of the newer SATA drives (like the latest Maxtor SATA Disks) unless you are running the *latest* BIOS version for the motherboard.

With older BIOS versions, the newer (faster) SATA drives are either not detected on boot, or are detected intermittently. The only fix for this is a BIOS update.

3. Older Serillel Adaptors do NOT support ATAPI devices (such as CD-ROM drives.) Older adaptors are only good for Hard Disks.

SIL-3611 chipset-based Adaptors are absolutely required for use with non-Hard-Disk items -- since the older SATA/PATA bridge chipsets are not compliant with the SATA implementation of ATAPI.

And finally:

Please note that none of the above is Abit's fault. The SATA specification has evolved beyond the ability of older PATA/SATA adapters.

The new implementation of SATA provided by the combination of the ICH5R and the latest Intel-provided pieces of the motherboard BIOS breaks compatibility between the ICH5R SATA implementation and older PATA/SATA adapters.

Such is life.

Best I can do for now. <tm>

Bill

John � wrote:
The adaptor did not come with the IC7 MAX3, the guy at the store gave it to me as he said it should have come with the board.

"TomG" wrote:

in addition to my other response, if this adapter came with the IC7
MAX3 board, then I am sure it is Serillel-2...

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Thomas Geery
Network+ certified
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Thanks for the info, as far as I know the board shipped with version 12 bios, I think this is the latest for the IC7 MAX3 according to the website, I heard that if you have a serillel 1 adaptor the round sticker on the side says serillel O and the serillel 2 adaptor has serillel 2 on the round sticker, is this true, if it is mine says serillel O, does this mean I have a serillel 1, thanks again for your help.

"Bill Drake" wrote:

Hi, John. There is a very easy way to tell if you're running an original Serillel adaptor on an IC7 (or any other Springdale/Canterwood motherboard):

1. Update your motherboard BIOS to the latest available (which you should be running anyways for the bugfixes).

2. If you hook up your PATA drive with the Serillel adaptor to either of the SATA connectors on the ICH5R -- and the motherboard is unable to detect the drives -- then you've got an original Serillel Adaptor, not a Serillel-2.

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Just incase anybody else has the same problem as me, I managed to get hold of somebody in the warehouse at abit and I asked them to open up a box for the serillel original and serillel 2 converters and tell me what the difference is, he said the original has serillel O on it and the serillel 2 has serillel 2 on it. The problem is there is only one supplier in the UK that sells the serillel 2, dabs.com, so guess what, yes, I ordered one, in total it came to �21.97 including next day delivery. I just hope it works, thanks again for everyones help.
 
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 12:05:01 -0000, "John ©" wrote:

Thanks for the info, as far as I know the board shipped with version 12 bios, I think this is the latest for the IC7 MAX3 according to the website, I heard that if you have a serillel 1 adaptor the round sticker on the side says serillel O and the serillel 2 adaptor has serillel 2 on the round sticker, is this true, if it is mine says serillel O, does this mean I have a serillel 1, thanks again for your help.
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I have three Serillel 2 adapters and they all have a round sticker on the side that says Serillel 2. Hope that helps…
 
Just an update, I recieved the serillel 2 apaptor and it works a treat, thanks again to everyone.

"Boris Cikota" wrote:

On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 12:05:01 -0000, "John �" wrote:

Thanks for the info, as far as I know the board shipped with version 12
bios, I think this is the latest for the IC7 MAX3 according to the
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website,
I heard that if you have a serillel 1 adaptor the round sticker on the side says serillel O and the serillel 2 adaptor has serillel 2 on the round
sticker, is this true, if it is mine says serillel O, does this mean I have a serillel 1, thanks again for your help.

I have three Serillel 2 adapters and they all have a round sticker on the side that says Serillel 2. Hope that helps.
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