Hi
I read all the Fernando's old guide for BIOS modding on that

the only thing is not clear is the MMtool opening result

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/87132882/new.rom

I have a Sony Vaio serie Z VPCZ13C5E, bios file is 4Mb large and this is the original sony last bios

I asked you cause of this on the win-lite.de forum

Zitat von pyr0

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I can confirm that TRIM works on my HM57 based 2010 Sony VAIO Z notebook running 4x128GB Samsung MMDPE56GQDXP-MVB SSDs in RAID0.
I replaced one of the IDs in the Option ROM's lookup table with my Alternate ID 3b2c as per Dufus' descriptions on page 1 and replaced my old 9.5 RAID option ROM with the patched ROM in my BIOS. I installed 11.6.2.1002 RST driver and TRIM is working perfectly. No recreation of the array was necessary. After deleting files, it takes about 20 seconds until sectors are zero'ed in HxD.

Short summary:
Intel RST Option ROM: 9.5.0.1037 (Stock) -> 11.6.0.1702 (put "2c3b000007" at Offset 1bb22)
Intel RST drivers: 11.2.0.1006 -> 11.6.2.1002 (with 11.2 driver TRIM did not work)

Chipset: HM57 Express (1st generation Core i7-620M)
Vendor 8086
SATA Dev ID 282A
LPC Dev ID 3B0B
Controller ID 282a
Alternative ID 3b2c

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this is the Intel rom I modified https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8713...2_v11601702.bin I think I did it right
how did you opened the rom file? maybe is the same way pyr0 did to modify it

EDIT by Fernando: quoted text corrected

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #4

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@ slash23:

I am sorry, but I cannot really help you.
Your Sony VAIO has an EFI/Insyde BIOS, which can be opened, but not modified by using the AMI Aptio MMTool.
Nevertheless I was able to extract all modules of the BIOS named new.rom. It contains an Intel RST RAID ROM v9.5.0.1037, which has an uncompressed size of 83 KB and is named "50173AB-9D1A-4856-86D3-7F1287FA5A55-1_418.ROM".

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pyr0* doesn't answer me

do you know any guy who can help me update OROM in my BIOS? I can pay him

What is it your after, trim, SRT both? What problem are you having with Ez, getting it to accept your OROM file?

I have an old BIOS (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/87132882/new.rom) with an old version of Intel RST OROM 9.5, I need to update it with a newer version I modded for my chipset HM57 (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8713...2_v11601702.bin) to let it support TRIM for my raid

I dunno how to do it with an EFI/Insyde BIOS

It's been a while since I've messed with Insyde, IIRC a lot of people were bricking their Sony's with mods in the early days, I don't know if that is still happening so be very careful that this is what you want to try.

I got a "404" trying to download your OROM so have used a special 11.6 instead which is attached. I tried this with Ez 2.1.0.4 and it seems okay but of course untested so use at your own risk.

File --> Load File "new.rom"

Components --> Module --> Delete Existing Module
GUID 501737AB-9D1A-4856-86D3-7F1287FA5A55
Patch

Components --> Module --> Insert New Module
New Module Path "?:\???\OROM_116.FFS"
FV FV00 => Start adress 0x200000 ,Size : 0xee000 bytes
Patch

File
Save As --> "Mod.rom"

If you open "new.rom" with 7-Zip you'll see a folder called "1.Insyde.vol", click on that and then open "501737AB.rom". This is your original OROM. Do the same for "Mod.rom" and you should see the new 11.6 OROM.

in my OROM (mirror: http://wikisend.com/download/382010/8086-2822_v11601702.bin) I modified the chipset ID with an hex editor in 1bb22 offset "2c3b000007" to let it support my chipset, opening your file I saw that it has some data more than mine at beginning


that thing move forward the offset to modify with the hex editor, I dunno if this is a problem
I found mine here: http://www.win-lite.de/wbb/board208-spec...eady-extracted/

( I noticed that the first line in your file is the GUID 501737AB-9D1A-4856-86D3-7F1287FA5A55, so maybe that part is used to positioning the module, and that's the difference from .bin to .ffs, where did you get that .ffs file? I cannot insert my .bin cause Ez says wrong format)

btw I got 2 problems

1) If I modify the device ID with an hex editor (from 05 1C 4B 1C 01 to 2C 3B 00 00 07) in your file then Ez says "Insert rom format is error!!!!!" maybe I need another utility to edit it? I use HxD

2) I cannot open any rom file with 7-Zip it says "cannot open file as archivie"


You are the best tnx for your helping

Hi slash23,
first of all there is little point changing the ID in the OROM I posted for you as it was made to work without an ID being present, especially useful for older boards. As such it should work to give RAID0 trim across all chipsets with 2822/282a RAID controller without any other modification. So far successfully tested on 4 and 5-series.

The header of the OROM was made specially for you, there can be quite a bit to it so referring to EFI specifications would be the best way to learn but basically changing data in the file will require fixups to possibly 2 checksums at 0x10 and 0x11, 1 CRC-32 at 0x30 for this file and possibly file lengths.

This is a view with 7-Zip ver 9.22
[[File:7z.png|none|auto]]

This is your modified firmware but I have not used Ez for modding before so I don't know if it is any good or if there are any caveats.

oh 7-Zip 9.22 beta.. that's why

all clear now, you really saved the day, I was going crazy on this BIOS thing

I read today the VAIO Z has no emergency BIOS recovery mode, so If I flash and it fails is a "byebye" with no warranty

wondering what to do... single 256SSD vs 2x128SSD raid0... and I have the HDD version with no visibile RAID setup in BIOS, and dunno if it will be visibile simply adding 2xSSD or I have to modify the BIOS...

hope upcoming days will help my mind