Hello Fernando, hello all.

Still having sume fun with very old nForce4 hardware.
I have set up a very good and stable Raid-0 system with the nvRaid of this old Asus K8N-DL.

Now, I need to use the Sil3114 SATA ports for some other HDD I have (storage and backups).

Problem is the Sil3114 controller is RAID only and doesn't want to work with single HDDs (the utility asks me to create arrays, this would erase my data and backups, not an option...).

Is it possible to flash a non raid version (maybe updated) for the Sil3114 module? I was not able to find it anywhere, not for sure at least.

I am not an expert.... If someone could update it for me on the latest K8N-DL bios, I would appreciate it a lot.

After looking around, and seeing a lot of complaints about this controller on boards and on add-on cards, all with people wanting to use single disk, it seems like you can do that by simply creating a non-array "array" by choosing only one disk for each "Array=meaning disk" you need to use as a single.
It's that, or flash a modified BIOS with edited Sil module, this is the thread I gained most useful information from - http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?4...zing-single-hdd

I could do the BIOS mod for you, but that link to MSI Forum is dead, so I need a source for the correct edited module, or another source for the correct module to use.

Hello Lost_N_Bios.
Unfortunately it seems that single drive is not accepted for an array, even a false one, by the Sil3114.
In fact years ago there was an IDE bios for this Sil controller, official, but the Silicon Image website is no more.
On Vogons I was able to retrieve a very good source of files for it, but no IDE bios.
And if course this is an integrated controller, not a separate card.

I was able to update the modules as well, with the last I could find, but again, no IDE.

Maybe only some boards allow it, that's crap! If you can find an old BIOS or copy of that IDE file, or any BIOS containing the NON-RAID module I can modify it for your board and insert into BIOS. In the Vogons package, is there the non-RAID rom?

On Vogons I was able to find anything but the IDE bios for the integrated controller.
Now I am able to insert the Module myself, but I cannot find the Module.
Plus I don’t know what motherboard has Sil3114 ide mode to extract it...

Any idea?

Sorry, no I don't have a clue where to look, other than google the non-raid module for that model, since that is how I saw it referenced on a few places.
They didn't say IDE module, although that could be what it really is, but on more than one forum people called it non-raid module.