SILICON IMAGE 3124 DRIVER DRIVERS
SILICON IMAGE 3124 DRIVER UPDATE
SILICON IMAGE 3124 DRIVER DRIVER

We are starting our in house testing on these as we speak, but wanted to set you up with links and advise you of their existence.

SILICON IMAGE 3124 DRIVER DRIVERS

New (beta) Silicon Image drivers are out for Snow Leopard. I received this email (in October) from MacGurus:

SILICON IMAGE 3124 DRIVER UPDATE

I did have to update the drivers to get my card to work. I use the Lycom LYCeSATA-4e PCIe 4 Port card and it works. ThereвЂ™s an expectation that they ought to work.ДЄnyway, IвЂ™ll be knocking on WDвЂ™s door about this, and I encourage any of you with an interest to do the same. TheyвЂ™re mass-market products being sold in the Apple stores. eSATA is finally getting going again reliably on Mac Pros, except for WD RAIDs. You have to wonder whoвЂ™s asleep at the switch. But why sell a drive that has a high-speed interface that doesnвЂ™t work? Looks nice in the advertising I suppose, but what a waste. So, there is NO card being manufactured today that Western Digital recommends for use with their eSATA-capable external RAID storage. Kinda pointless, no? Oh wait - AND ITвЂ™S A DISCONTINUED PRODUCT. One card, one port, for MacPros looking to use WD external eSATA drives. For OS 10.5+ (no mention of 10.6+), there was one, ONE, card. YouвЂ™d think with a large manufacturer selling more than several different flavors of drives, thereвЂ™d be some choices, right? Nope.

I asked WD what PCIe cards were appropriate for their external eSATA hard drives. Sonnet, a respected manufacturer of eSATA cards even calls out the WD RAID drives on their product pages as being basically useless (well, they say they wonвЂ™t workвЂ¦ IвЂ™m embellishing). Western Digital external RAID enclosures connected via eSATA cards using the 3132 chip (and maybe others) cause kernel panics. My Granite Digital enclosure is working again like it used to under 10.4 & 10.5. Recently, new SII drivers have brought those cards to life. Until a short time ago, PCIe cards with the most prevalent chipset out there (SII3132) were kinda dead in the water. Now, Snow Leopard has its issues with eSATA. And, simple enclosures that are easy to cart off to storage inexpensive enough to buy as you need вЂ™em for each large project. They work fine with FireWire and USB, but itвЂ™s the eSATA that was the original draw - fast transfer for really big files. 1TB, 2TB RAID1, basically two drives in one box with FireWire, USB and eSATA connections. TheyвЂ™ve been handy mainly for redundant media backups that I store off-site. I have a few of the Western Digital My Book Studio II external RAID enclosures. Not so much as a question as an observation.

SILICON IMAGE 3124 DRIVER DRIVER

Your driver is up to date - if you have a problem with your driver, you can try to re-install the old version as below. Silicon Image SiI 3124 SoftRaid 5 ControllerДўK, XP, 2K3, VISTA, WIN7, WIN8, WIN81, WIN10/32bits *: 2K=Windows 2000, 2K3= Windows 2003, XP= Windows XP, VISTA = Windows Vista, WIN7 = Windows 7 Watch this video to see how it works - click here If your driver isn't working, use the driver having the same OEM with the your laptop/desktop brand name. If you are looking for an update, pickup the latest one. With the different devices, they can have the same driver, it's because they all use the same chip manufacturer. Below is a list of drivers that may be suitable for your device.

Silicon image 3124 driver