Re: RAID controllers - BIOS conflict - pls help

On Tue, 16 May 2006 07:23:42 -0400, George Macdonald
<fammacd=!SPAM^nothanks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 16 May 2006 02:29:01 GMT, "nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx"
<mygarbage2000@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 15 May 2006 05:58:22 -0400, George Macdonald
<fammacd=!SPAM^nothanks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

...snip...

Dunno about VIA SATA sucking:-) but I'm pretty sure this is a MSI BIOS
issue - a check at MSI Forum shows that people are getting similar ("Not
enough space to copy PCI option ROM 00:13:00") msgs even with a mix of
on-board chipset (VIA & nVidia) SATA RAID and on-board SIL SATA RAID.
Obviously there is a conflict between address spaces for the two RAID
firmwares in the Reserved Memory space (640K -> 1M)... if the msg is to be
believed.:-)
Got response from MSI that flashing the latest BIOS would fix it. But
it is marked as beta, and I am hesitant to use any beta software, let
alone flashing it. Also have a problem finding in my pile of spare
parts a floppy drive (don't even have it installed in this system),
and MSI site explicitly warns against using any other boot device to
flash ;-)

Huh? I haven't seen that in my MSI adventures - in fact, although their
instructions say to boot from floppy, they say *not* to run Flash from the
floppy and recommend strongly to run the flash from a hard drive (FAT,
FAT32) or from a Win98 Startup RAMDRIVE (NTFS). You should be OK booting
from a USB flash drive, though I've never tried it. See here
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/serveroptions/us/download/20306.html
for a utility to create a bootable USB flash drive, though it needs a
source for the DOS boot files.

Maybe this is an aberration of the memory. Even if they don't say
this now, they used to. Or maybe some other place - like the mobo
manual, not even necessarily the manual for this mobo. I didn't
invent the idea that floppy is a must for flashing BIOS, honestly.
But thanks for the idea to boot from USB - this may be an easy way
out, though not without risk - as in the thread you started recently.
Flashing from a corrupt USB drive may be fatal. However I've seen a
lot more dude floppies than flash drives ;-)
Promise still silent (I don't take for an answer the autoreply that
they received my request) - that much for customer service. Looks
like I am doomed to try and flash that beta BIOS.

NNN

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