starfox5194 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 can someone give me the sil3132 |-->Raid<--| driver. I have been looking on the website and i get a .mpkg. i looked inside it for about an hour and couldn't find the kext. can someone please give me a kext so that i can plug in my usb stick, do kextload -t sil3132.kext and pray that there is no ownership errors. Thanks. Btw i only have xp installed atm so i cant do anything that you need mac os x for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derpuma Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Unfortunatly there is no working one out from silikon image. The new one for 10.6 does not work for me, and the old one for 10.5 gave me kernel panics under snow! For me this one made it so far: http://www.sonnettech.com/support/kb/kb.ph...mp;action=a3#a3 But no Raid support! So only single HDDs are working, also copying from one to another HDD in between my enclosure does not work and Finder hangs up. Good thing is, no Kernel Panics there... And: ALL ONLY 32bit Snow!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disconap Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 Thank you so, so much for this; I've been trying to get my atom 330 to even recognize my PCI-e card for about 4 days now. It finally seems to with that driver, but like your RAID problem, only one drive per channel so my port multiplier is currently useless. But I do have a 2 channel isolated controller box, so I guess I'll use that for the time being until a usable workaround arrives (and allows me to return to 64-bit mode, but really for a file server that's not that important)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fies76 Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 the new drivers are working for me in 64xbit mode http://www.siliconimage.com/support/search...id=32&cat=3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobydu Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Thanks for the reminder, as I really didn't expect these drivers to get updated, I had stopped looking here! Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uninc Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 The new drivers fie76 refers to work for me too on an AMD. I am using a cheap pcie card bought off ebay. here is a photo of xbench drive test - pretty good for an early 1TB Deskstar. eSATA connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mm67 Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 New raid drivers also work nicely, this is Xbench results of two Seagate 1Tb 7200.12 disks installed as Raid0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smeared Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 I tried to use the new drivers tonight with a rosewill 4 bay raid enclosure. The raid 5 one worked, but then stopped working. And it hosed some of my USB ports. I'm still trying to fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dia3olik Posted May 19, 2010 Share Posted May 19, 2010 hi, does your card shows up in system profiler under pci cards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mm67 Posted May 19, 2010 Share Posted May 19, 2010 hi,does your card shows up in system profiler under pci cards? No, it doesn't. But works great with 32-bit kernel, driver seems to break sleep if using 64-bit kernel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dia3olik Posted May 19, 2010 Share Posted May 19, 2010 have you tried with efi strings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mm67 Posted May 19, 2010 Share Posted May 19, 2010 have you tried with efi strings? Haven't tried but that should be possible, with dsdt it's easy. But what's the point, I don't get any extra functionality if card is shown in that list, it's just cosmetics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dia3olik Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 i don't know why but some cards are more stable if identified fully by the system, like the jmicron ahci esata controllers for example... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FKA Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 No, it doesn't. But works great with 32-bit kernel, driver seems to break sleep if using 64-bit kernel. I concure - also lost auto sleep, forced still works. Has anybody tried yet to install to and boot from a legacy RAID made using sil3132? D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mm67 Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 I concure - also lost auto sleep, forced still works. Has anybody tried yet to install to and boot from a legacy RAID made using sil3132? D Never tried to install to Raid, but I did clone my SSD install to a partition on Raid, boot's just fine. I don't see why installing wouldn't also work. I naturally have Chameleon installed to a separate disk and have Sil3132 kext file in that partitions /E/E folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FKA Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 Never tried to install to Raid, but I did clone my SSD install to a partition on Raid, boot's just fine. I don't see why installing wouldn't also work. I naturally have Chameleon installed to a separate disk and have Sil3132 kext file in that partitions /E/E folder. sounds promising ! I've got 2x 1TB drives mirrored with my 2 port SATA II PCI-ex card that I'm keeping my valued bit's and pieces on. So I can hardware RAID my 2x320GB boot HDDs (currently sofware RAID'd) I need to either find a 4 port PCI-ex card that will fit in place. I only have 1x PCI-ex slot and it's very tight to my GPU - I've already had to remove the backplate off my 2 port card to get it in. Or I find a 2 port PCI - there don't seem to be many! Or I buy a PCI to PCI-ex converter - not sure if I like the idea of that too much .. ?? Cost is obviously a consideration here or I'd run out and buy a highpoint ! D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mm67 Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 sounds promising ! I've got 2x 1TB drives mirrored with my 2 port SATA II PCI-ex card that I'm keeping my valued bit's and pieces on. So I can hardware RAID my 2x320GB boot HDDs (currently sofware RAID'd) I need to either find a 4 port PCI-ex card that will fit in place. I only have 1x PCI-ex slot and it's very tight to my GPU - I've already had to remove the backplate off my 2 port card to get it in. Or I find a 2 port PCI - there don't seem to be many! Or I buy a PCI to PCI-ex converter - not sure if I like the idea of that too much .. ?? Cost is obviously a consideration here or I'd run out and buy a highpoint ! D You can also use port multipliers, each Sil3132 port can handle a 5-port multiplier so you could connect up to 10 drives on one 2-port Sil3132 board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FKA Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 You can also use port multipliers, each Sil3132 port can handle a 5-port multiplier so you could connect up to 10 drives on one 2-port Sil3132 board. They're not too cheap either @ around £50. I can buy another 2 port RAID for around £15. Also is this not going to lead to bandwidth issues as each SATA II port only has 3Gb/s and your average HDD will get you 300MB/s > aprox 2.4Gb/s? D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mm67 Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 They're not too cheap either @ around £50. I can buy another 2 port RAID for around £15. Also is this not going to lead to bandwidth issues as each SATA II port only has 3Gb/s and your average HDD will get you 300MB/s > aprox 2.4Gb/s? D Don't know but I think someone here was using a multiplier, you might try to find that thread and ask the guy about speed issues. I'm using two 1 TB disks in striped raid, speed is nice and raid is usable on both Windows and OS X. But if the multipliers are so expensive then it's probably better to just buy an other board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FKA Posted July 17, 2010 Share Posted July 17, 2010 I've edited the info.plist of the sil3132 kext so the drives show as internal - But Im noticing now that the drives are being ejected on wake from forced sleep. This is a very similar problem to the USB eject issue. Does anybody know, can the same fix be applied to in this case? Cheers D. This appears to have been the result of using s dodgy DSDT. Drives are not ejection on wake from sleep. D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo_01 Posted September 27, 2010 Share Posted September 27, 2010 I have one doubt regarding this RAID controller, it-s possible to boot from a RAID volume? How I have to install the driver at the beginning of the installation of MAC OS? Thanks in advice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FKA Posted September 28, 2010 Share Posted September 28, 2010 I have one doubt regarding this RAID controller, it-s possible to boot from a RAID volume? How I have to install the driver at the beginning of the installation of MAC OS?Thanks in advice Install to none RAID HDD > install sil drivers > carbon copy cloner or similar to clone install to RAID ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FKA Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 hi,does your card shows up in system profiler under pci cards? I'm sure others have spotted this now but this card shows up as a SCSI device in system profiler, without DSDT edit or EFI string. D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Settepotet Posted May 30, 2011 Share Posted May 30, 2011 I'm sure others have spotted this now but this card shows up as a SCSI device in system profiler, without DSDT edit or EFI string. D Same here. Btw, if I connect two harddrives to my Lycom PE 103 (sil3132 2 port non raid) I can only see one of them. In both W7 and OSX... Any solution for this? Using latest driver for both Win and OSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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