

Marvell is another one, perhaps try a 9128 based one ? though I'd avoid the 9123 as it has manufacturing flaws (ASUS dropped it from it's P55 motherboards and the company has released a press release about defects).

I see very few variations of these eSATA chipsets and tons and tons of companies rebranding/selling them. And I also have used Marvell esata controllers which worked just as well and better in the case of a laptop because XP auto detected the driver. hopefully any newer silicon image chipset is improved from the previous. The Marvell 6Gbps is a newer generation card. could be some sort of controller/drive timeout factor.Īnd to play devil's advocate. Sometimes, rarely, it wouldn't detect the drives after a cold boot. was it would inconsistently reorder the drives so my drives would be out of order after a reboot. I have noticed Silicon image stuff works better in linux because other people spent the time to get it to work, ie write better drivers.
#Sil 3132 softraid 5 controller driver for windows 10 drivers#
They had outdated drivers and their website sucked. I think it was a syba? or some generic third company. I did test it with windows 7 and it did read after I downloaded the drivers from Silicon image and updated the firmware from silicon image. It works, I can read all 5 drives in an enclosure using ubuntu. I have a couple Sil 3132 using ESATA on a linux box.
