ITE Gigaraid IT8212F Bios/Driver updates that we do not get..

Seems that Gigabyte does not support its customers at all.

Read about these ITE Gigaraid updates..


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ITE IT8212F Bios History, not all of them.

1.4.1.2

1. Bug fixed: the drive letters of same channel’s master and slave drives are
exchanged.
2. Return ax=110h instead of 100h when leaving BIOS initial routine.
3. Modify cable type detection.
4. Bug fixed: DMA transfer failure on certain main boards. 06/09/’03

1.4.1.3

1. Always boot from 8212 HDD when using Phoenix BIOS 07/22/’03

1.5.1.3

1. No change 10/01/’03 <<< Wrong year should be 04.

1.6.1.41

1. Bug fixed: for Gigabyte VIA chipset MB, fail to boot from secondary HDD.
2. Bug fixed: bootable CD cannot boot on some main boards and CD-ROMs.
02/25/’04

1.7.1.51

1. Shorten devices scan time.
2. Hard disks attached on IT8212 can be shown in system BIOS’s hard disk boot
priority list.
06/02/’04

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Driver history, not all of them.


1.3.1.4

1. Bug Fix: Cannot play Audio CD in Windows ME when running on DMA mode.
2. Bug Fix: Support some devices which interrupt with the assertion of DRQ
after receiving ATAPI Packet Command.
3. Bug Fix: Check the two channels to see whether the IBM buggy disk attached
on the slave, and no Master attached on the related channel. We must skip all
reset commands if the above conditions exist. 03/26/2003

1.4.1.5

1. Bug fix: Cannot format LS-120 disk in Windows XP.
2. Bug fix: Cannot recognize CD-RW in Windows XP.
3. Bug fix: Support IDE SMART commands in pure IDE mode. 04/22/2003

1.4.1.6

1. Bug fix: Support VCD playback in Windows ME. 06/10/2003

1.5.1.7

1. Bug Fix: S4 resume failure on certain MB. 10/02/2003


1.6.1.8

1. Bug Fix: NU 8x DVD write failure when running UDMA mode.
2. Bug fix: several hard disks format pretty slow when capacity exceeds 130GB.
02/24/1004

1.7.1.9

1. Bug fix: S3 resume failed sometimes.
2. Shorten format time. 06/02/’04
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All you do is download the latest off the various websites. You never use
the drivers and BIOS on Gigabyte....they are always out of date.

 

You can't as you can't update the MoBo Bios..

Think again..

 

ITE have a flash utily to update the BIOS...see the website.
It's true that you can't flash the Silicon Image chip/BIOS.

 

ITE have a Flash Utile to Flash there controller cards, not a MoBO, Go read
the FAQ, It states to contact you MoB maker regarding Bios updates.


Look before you leap..