Hi boombastik, I corrected the error and reuploaded the ISO image.

In answer to your question. The card is from StarTech.
I found the drivers & firmware on the supplied CD outdated and caused my PC to lockup when I used the ESATA port.
So I found some more appropriate drivers & firmware from Station Drivers and also from this forum and made a custom CD that works with minimal effort from the user.

Thanks.

Zitat von boombastik im Beitrag #148

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It is easy for you to share a link of your model pcie add-on asmedia board?
It is a generic one?
thanks

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Surelly it works because....

I have the same card :D

Hello Everyone,

I have a question regards to flashing the v0951 FW on my ASM106x onboard for my Asrock Xtreme 79 mobo. I have downloaded the asmedia_asm106x_firmware_N0951 pack and put it on a bootable USB drive using FreeDOS. I tried flashing the 106N0951.BIN but it keeps saying Option ROM not found? My current FW is v.093 and I would like to go to v.0951 so can someone please shed some light.

Thanks in advance.

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #120

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To make it easier for all users, who are interested in updating the Firmware of their add-on PCI card with an ASMedia ASM-106 SATA Controller, I have merged all posts about this topic into this one and customized the thread title.
Furthermore I have added some general remarks about the differences between on-board and add-on ASMedia ASM-106 Controllers into the start post of this thread.

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Zitat von Tallguy297 im Beitrag #151

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Hi boombastik, I corrected the error and reuploaded the ISO image.

In answer to your question. The card is from StarTech.
I found the drivers & firmware on the supplied CD outdated and caused my PC to lockup when I used the ESATA port.
So I found some more appropriate drivers & firmware from Station Drivers and also from this forum and made a custom CD that works with minimal effort from the user.

Thanks.

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One more question... I ran the firmware update, but how do you check the version of the firmware in Win10? I looked at Device Manager>Hardware ID. It shows the same numbers as before the flash.
PCI\VEN_1B21&DEV_0612&SUBSYS_10601B21&REV_01
PCI\VEN_1B21&DEV_0612&SUBSYS_10601B21
PCI\VEN_1B21&DEV_0612&CC_010601
PCI\VEN_1B21&DEV_0612&CC_0106

Is there something else? Or did my flash not "take"?
Thanks again!

In answer to your question, Windows will only report the vendor & device id of installed hardware.
On some devices like DVD writers it will display addition numbers referring to the bios version installed.
For example in the device manager under DVD/CD Rom drives -> Details -> Hardware IDs ... SCSI\CdRomHL-DT-STBD-RE__BH16NS40_1.03 refers to a LG BH16NS40 Bluray burner with firmware 1.03 installed on the drive.
However, this information is generally only displayed for attached storage devices like DVDs, hard-drives, USB DVD, hard-drives.

Regarding the SATA PCIe add-on card, the firmware version will appear when you reboot your PC.
It will typically appear for a few seconds after the bios screen post.

FYI, you will know if the flash procedure has been successful with the flash OK appearing after the bios flash procedure.
When you flash the Asmedia 106x firmware, you might get a message stating that the firmware version or chip is unknown. Ignore that message.
The flash procedure works with all Asmedia 106x SATA PCIe add-on cards.
Do not use this firmware to flash integrated motherboard Asmedia 106x SATA firmware, the firmware flash procedure will not work.

I hope this information has been useful.

@Tallyguy297

I've successfully used your CD-image in order to update my eSATA Controller to version 0.97. Thank you very much for this tool!

Unfortunately it did not solve my issue.

I am using Win10 pro, 64bit and a Delock PCIe Card with one internal SATA and one external eSATA ports. In the past I used two 1TB harddrives without any Problems (firmware 095).
Now I connected a 3TB harddrive (Toshiba DT01ACA300) to the external eSATA port. The System now stops at the bootscreen of the ASMEDIA Rom, it displays the firmware number and the data of the internal harddisk but never displays the data of the new external drive. Even if I connect the drive after the system was bootet without the external drive, it never detects the new 3TB drive.
The answere from the Delock Support to this issue was: "The card is end of life. This ussue is unknown to us".

I was hoping that a firmware update would solve this issue but it din't ( I understood from this thread, that firmware 3.xx must not be used on this card. That's why I used version 0.97).
The specs of the Card are:
external 1 x esata 6Gb/s
internal 1 x SATA 6Gb/s, 1 x PCI Express x1, V2.0
Supports SATA port Multiplier
Supports Native Command Queue (NCQ)
Supports ATA, ATAPI-7
Supports ATA Master and Slave

The HW-IDs of the Card are:
PCI\VEN_1B21&DEV_0612&SUBSYS_10601B21&REV_01
PCI\VEN_1B21&DEV_0612&SUBSYS_10601B21
PCI\VEN_1B21&DEV_0612&CC_010601
PCI\VEN_1B21&DEV_0612&CC_0106

If I connect the this HD via USB or via SATA to another PC,it works fine.

Does anyone know about this issue? Is the card maybe unable to Support 3TB drives?

Thank and best regards

Hans

it is gpt partition? This chip has problems with big hard drives in gpt patitions.

Hi,

I tried gpt and mbr. None of them worked.

Regards

Hans

dear All,
I have one of these ASMEDIA SATA controler ( 2 internal ports, 2 external) , but I have a problem using it:
If I plug 2 drives on it, the PC boot hangs on ASMEDIA infos ( firmware 0.951)
if only one drive is plugged... no problem
I've also tested to install a 2nd controller card: 1st ASMEDIA info (with one drive) is OK, but then ASMEDIA for the 2nd card hangs..

seems that my system only accepts 1 card with 1 HDD.

is there a possibility that flashing 0.97 firmware could fix this problem?
Thanks

I have seen this bug in a x58 gigabyte motherboard.
Ine newer motherboards work ok.

Also have u set the jumpers?

Zitat von Tallguy297 im Beitrag #151

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Hi boombastik, I corrected the error and reuploaded the ISO image.

In answer to your question. The card is from StarTech.
I found the drivers & firmware on the supplied CD outdated and caused my PC to lockup when I used the ESATA port.
So I found some more appropriate drivers & firmware from Station Drivers and also from this forum and made a custom CD that works with minimal effort from the user.

Thanks.

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I have modified the drivers & firmware disc.
Now contains firmware for AHCI versions 0.951 , 0.97, 3.80 & 4.27. IDE versions - 0.951 , 3.70.

Click HERE to download the ISO image.

Enjoy...