Does any one else have a PR-DLS533/RACK board?
Mine was shipped running BIOS rev 1008 and a green PCI-X slot that
seems to support the LSI MegaRAID 320-0 card. Working fine so far,
with RAID 1/RAID 10/RAID 1 arrays
After updaing to BIOS rev 1010 I lost support for this card, the BIOS
doesn't even see the LSI MegaRAID card during POST.
If I take the MegaRAID card out, the BIOS does recognize the on board
LSI SCSI, and I can revert back to rev 1008, but I need the fixes
introduced in rev 1010!
Any one else using this board?
I examined the Award BIOS files for release 08 and 10, and both
versions of the 10 file, are missing a module named "LSI103~5.ROM".
I think that explains your loss of hardware functionality.
Depending on your degree of urgency versus dependable results,
there are tools like CBROM215, CTMC (contains splitawd, lha)
that can be used to extract LSI103~5.ROM from the 08 release,
and insert that module into the 10 release. Here are some
examples of hacking with these tools. You would get a copy
of the 08 bios file, extract the LSI module from that,
and insert it into 10. You might be able to do all of this
with CBROM or you may need the assistance of CTMC (from
ftp.heise.de magazine site).
http://tipperlinne.com/bios6b4.htm
ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/ctsi/ctmc10.zip
The best answer is to contact Asus tech support and get them to
put it back.
I'd give a recipe myself, but I don't have enough confidence in
these tools, to be flashing hardware, unless the owner of the
hardware has a BIOS Savior (ioss.com.tw) or equiv hardware, to
be able to escape from badly prepared BIOS files. You'd be
doubly pissed if the hardware was made completely useless to you,
until you got a backup BIOS chip from badflash.com
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It appears my favorite site for CBROM is no longer serving up the
files. Guess the lawyers or the internet download bill got to him.
Here is the release info web page from that site, which luckily I
archived...
"VERSION DATE
CBROM v1.12C 1997
CBROM v1.13a 1997
CBROM v1.24C 1998
CBROM v1.26B 1998
CBROM v1.30 1999
CBROM v1.30B 1999
CBROM v1.30C 1999
CBROM v1.32 1999
CBROM v6.02B 1999
CBROM v6.06 1999
CBROM v2.01A 1999
CBROM v2.07 2000
CBROM v2.08 2000
CBROM v2.15 2001
Award BIOS users now have the choice of using a program other than
CBROM to do their modification work. The program is called
"Awardmod" and is written under the GPL. This program WILL work
with both the 256K Award 4.xx BIOS and the new Medallion
BIOS that CBROM simply won't work with. can be downloaded from
it's homepage on Sourceforge."
Searching on Abxzone, for cbrom or awardmod, may dig up more info
and perhaps links to the tools themselves.
http://abxzone.com/forums/search.php
Good luck,
Paul
