Pioneer DVR-212D Abit NF7-S ?

[JockMcJock]

Sata Optical: Pioneer DVR-212D
Motherboard: Abit NF7-S v2 Sata

Sata Optical DVD drives compatible/work on the NF7-S V2 Motherboard ?

Anyone had success getting a SATA dvd burner to work directly plugged into the sata1 or sata2 socket on this motherboard and NOT through a PCI card. Sata harddrive and ide drives all working perfectly just testing Sata optical burner on this board.

I have tried Pioneer DVR-212D in 2 other PCs with onboard SATA ports and it works perfectly no corrupt data or freezing. This motherboard/bios old never designed to run Optical sata drives?

Pioneer DVR-212D will burn dvds but when I verify them there are errors (Verbatim/TY only media used). How do you enable "Look Ahead" and "Write Cache" options see below this anything to do with the corrupt data and verify errors?



tia.............




DEVICE MANAGER INFO:

Silicon Image Sil 3112 SATARaid Controller Properties:

Type: CD-ROM
Model: Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-212D
Firmware Version: 1.24
ATA Version: ATA/ATAPI-7
Look Ahead: Unsupported
Write Cache: Unsupported
Current Transfer Mode: Ultra DMA Mode 4
Serial link speed: Generation 1 (1.5Gb/s)




-IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
Primary IDE Channel
Secondary IDE Channel
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller

-SCSI and RAID controllers
Silicon Image Sil 3112 SATARaid Controller

[bevills1]

Try disabling RAID in BIOS. I've read where SATA optical drives don't work correctly with RAID enabled.

[budz]

you have NVIDIA chipset controller therefore you'll need to download the latest drivers from the NVIDIA website. don't download them from the mobo website. also make sure SATA is set to IDE in your mobo bios and as mentioned disable RAID in mobo bios as well.

if all of the above is done and the 212 doesn't work correctly you may have to buy a PCI SATA CONTROLLER CARD that has the SILICON IMAGE 3112/3114/3512 chipset.

[bevills1]

His SATA RAID controller is Silicon Image Sil 3112 and other controllers may be Silicon Image too for which a PCI adapter may not help. Most likely the budz suggested BIOS changes should resolve the problem.

[budz]

His SATA RAID controller is Silicon Image Sil 3112 and other controllers may be Silicon Image too for which a PCI adapter may not help. Most likely the budz suggested BIOS changes should resolve the problem.

I did see he has the 3112 chipset but it's RAID so it's not gonna help him with his problem. That 3112 chipset is on his mobo which usually you can just shut the RAID off in the mobo bios. But if there isn't that option he would still have to buy a SATA PCI CONTROLLER CARD which can be flashed to be NON-RAID where his mobo isn't capable of that.

[[_chef_]]

Depending on the BIOS, only disabling SATA Controller BIOS just works wonders.......