Even with the latest EX58-UD3R bios from 2010, I notice that it includes an ancient, slow and buggy AHCI option rom from 2008 (version 1.20E).
It appears that only Gigabyte AWARD BIOS includes this particular option rom - other X58 boards don't appear to have it. Does anyone know what purpose it serves?
If it's absolutely necessary, is there a reason that Gigabyte can't include the version from last year ("Serial ATA AHCI BIOS, Version iSrc 1.20_E.0024 12212009").
The 1.20E version of this code appears to have a bug where it will crash (error code 23) based on values on the hard drive. Specifically, if the ICH SATA is in AHCI mode, and the option rom executes, it will hang if a SATA disk contains small values in the first partition table entry's Ending CHS values.
It appears that only Gigabyte AWARD BIOS includes this particular option rom - other X58 boards don't appear to have it. Does anyone know what purpose it serves?
If it's absolutely necessary, is there a reason that Gigabyte can't include the version from last year ("Serial ATA AHCI BIOS, Version iSrc 1.20_E.0024 12212009").
The 1.20E version of this code appears to have a bug where it will crash (error code 23) based on values on the hard drive. Specifically, if the ICH SATA is in AHCI mode, and the option rom executes, it will hang if a SATA disk contains small values in the first partition table entry's Ending CHS values.
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