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SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Tuesday, March 01, 2011 12:11 PM (permalink)

The Firmware and Software below is applicable to the following mainboards:

EVGA CLASSIFIED SR-2
EVGA x58 CLASSIFIED 3
EVGA X58 FTW 3
EVGA X58 SLI 3

PLEASE NOTE:

It is strongly recommended that you backup any data on the SATAIII/6G drives if in a raid configuration before flashing the Marvell chipset. In rare occurrences the raid will degrade and could lose data.
If this is a new installation, flashing of firmware is recommended before installation of data to the drive to minimize any issues that may occur after the flash if in a raid configuration.
After firmware is flashed to the marvell controller the drivers should be reinstalled to avoid any possible issues that can arise as it recognizes the controller differently after the flash.

Firmware Version 1.0.0.1701

Enhances AHCI compatibility

Firmware Updating can be accomplished VIA the methods below:

CD/DVD Installation - Recommended installation method

Download .iso file below for your motherboard:

CD ISO

USB FLOPPY Installation - Recommended installation method

Download the .exe file below for your motherboard:

USB Bootable Floppy

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Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Wednesday, March 02, 2011 10:59 AM (permalink)

is it me or the file DVD iso is not good ? i can see only a desktop icone on the DVD after burning.

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Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Wednesday, March 02, 2011 3:19 PM (permalink)

terminou

is it me or the file DVD iso is not good ? i can see only a desktop icone on the DVD after burning.

The firmware was not designed to run from Windows. Try booting from the CD/DVD and see what you get.

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Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Wednesday, March 02, 2011 4:42 PM (permalink)

it works now. The CD did notboot on it twice but the tird was the good one. BTW, we should not take care of checksum issue during the upgrade

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Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Saturday, March 05, 2011 1:21 PM (permalink)

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The Firmware and Software below is applicable to the following mainboards:

EVGA CLASSIFIED SR-2
EVGA x58 CLASSIFIED 3
EVGA X58 FTW 3
EVGA X58 SLI 3
Firmware Version 1.0.0.1701

Shannon: I installed the firmware with no difficulty. However, I have two issues on which you might comment on.

1- When I updated the Marvell firmware, the update is listed as as version 2.2.0.1118. I believe this is correct not only because my computer is running well but also because the Marvell driver website lists version 2.2.0.1118 as the latest firmware for the MV9128, the chip used on the EVGA SR-2 board. Could you confirm whether the 2.2.0.1118 update is the correct version for the SR-2?

2- When the system posts with the new firmware installed, I see the addition of STATUS. That is, instead of [ID] [Disk-name] [Size] and [Speed] , I now see [ID] [Disk-name] [Size] [Speed] and [Status]. The STATUS of my SATA drive is listed as UNCONFIGURED. I interpret the designation, UNCONFIGURED, in the context of RAID configuration --- that is, because my Marvell controller is not configured for the SATA III drives in RAID, the status is "unconfigured." Is that correct or does the term, "unconfigured", have a different meaning?

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Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Saturday, March 05, 2011 1:36 PM (permalink)

EVGA_ShannonR

The Firmware and Software below is applicable to the following mainboards:

EVGA CLASSIFIED SR-2
Firmware Version 1.0.0.1701

Shannon: I installed the firmware with no difficulty. But I noticed two things which you might comment on.

1- When I updated the Marvell firmware, the update appears as version 2.2.0.1118. I believe this is correct, not only because my computer is running well but also because, the Marvell driver website lists the version 2.2.0.1118 as the latest firmware for the MV9128, the chip used on the EVGA SR-2 boards. Could you confirm that version 2.2.0.111 is the correct update for the SR-2 board?

2- When the system posts with the new firmware installed, I now see displayed the addition of STATUS. That is, instead of [ID] [Disk-name] [Size] and [Speed] , I now see [ID] [Disk-name] [Size] [Speed] and [Status]. The STATUS of my SATA drive is listed as UNCONFIGURED. I am guessing that the term, UNCONFIGURED, refers to whether or not the SATA III drives are installed in RAID configuration. Could you clarify the meaning of the "unconfigured" status. Does this simply refer to the fact that I don't have my SATA III configured for RAID or does "unconfigured" have a different meaning?

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Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:02 AM (permalink)

One word of caution before flashing with this version. Go to the downloads page and download the version there as well. I flashed my SR-2 with the 1701 and proceeded to have failed boots. Downloaded and installed the 1407 version on the downloads page and it booted up again - after some time on the phone with tech support.
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Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Thursday, March 24, 2011 12:24 AM (permalink)

I thought I had commented on this thread before, if so the comment is gone... weird.

Just a FYI: both the firmware (ISO) from the link here and the Downloads page are the same AFAIK. The FTP directory is throwing a denied listing error when I try to get to other potentially helpful firmware versions. Anyway:

Words of caution: This update will break any Linux installation apparently, and no kernel seems to pick up the right driver for it no matter what AHCI setting the BIOS has, and certainly with all the right drivers enabled on the the .config which worked for previous versions. I hope this is solved ASAP. Epic fail.

If you run Linux on the box, stay away from this firmware. You will be locked out of your disk unless you plug it at a different controller (black ports). No SATA6 for you. I don't know if this is addressed in 2.6.38 kernels but I doubt it, seems like a major screw up. Perhaps a vendor/device ID has been changed breaking generic support for no good reason.

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sr2boy Total Posts : 87 Joined: 2/5/2011 Status: offline	Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Saturday, May 14, 2011 6:22 AM (permalink) I would like to know is there a benifit updating to the 1407? or .18 firmware? Any performace increase for sata 2,3?
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Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Sunday, May 15, 2011 9:07 AM (permalink)

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I would like to know is there a benifit updating to the 1407? or .18 firmware? Any performace increase for sata 2,3?

If you meant updating to 1701, yes, the updates do provide some benefits. The benefit, however, probably depend on the SATA device. My Western Digital 6Gb/s Black 1-TB Hard drive provides a good example where I observe a definite benefit. The photo below shows the performance of the same drive taken before and after the updates. For clarity, I encircled the main improvements (in red). The READ rate at 4K went from 56776 to 125871.

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Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Sunday, May 15, 2011 5:14 PM (permalink)

Wow thanks for sharing that, i have a barracuda 6gb 7200rpm sata 2 drive and when using everest bench i am getting poor results over 13ms for seek time and only 100mb read/write speed.
I used to have asus x48 mb with the same drive and had far better results and overall responsiveness around 135mb read write speeds and 6ms seek time.
I will give this a try and report back hopefully it fixes my problem.

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sr2boy Total Posts : 87 Joined: 2/5/2011 Status: offline	Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Sunday, May 15, 2011 6:08 PM (permalink) I have now updated to 1407 and did not see any real benifits or much improvement in bench tests. Wondering if i do flash to 1701 are you able to flash back?
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sr2boy Total Posts : 87 Joined: 2/5/2011 Status: offline	Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Sunday, May 15, 2011 6:56 PM (permalink) Have also found firmware and drivers latest for the mv chip http://www.station-drivers.com/page/marvell.htm
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Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Monday, May 16, 2011 7:05 AM (permalink)

sr2boy

I have now updated to 1407 and did not see any real benifits or much improvement in bench tests.

The improvement I observe was not in the maximum speed but rather in the speed for small (circa 4K) files. The maximum speed of 1-TB HDDs typically ranges from 135-140 MB/s at the outer rim of the disk (disk is empty) to about 50-60 MB/s at the inner rim (i.e., disk becomes filled). So you might have only gotten 100 MB/s because the test examined a partly filled drive.

To evaluate the maximum speed of your drive through the Marvell port, confine the test to the outer rim of the drive, e.g, create an empty "first" partition of the drive. If your drive is like mine, you should get 125-140 MB/s regardless of whether you updated the firmware.

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sr2boy Total Posts : 87 Joined: 2/5/2011 Status: offline	Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Thursday, May 19, 2011 3:24 AM (permalink) Does anyone know or can the mods find out if the firmware is backward compatible?
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ritaylor Total Posts : 165 Joined: 9/2/2004 Status: offline Ribbons: 1	Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Thursday, June 02, 2011 10:10 AM (permalink) Yes you can flash it back to 1407. I too had the unconfigured status and fearing that something was wrong. I flashed back to 1407. EVGA Classified3 Core i7 990x 12 GB Corsair Vengeance 1600 @ 9-9-9-24 2T EVGA GTX 570 600GB Intel SSD 600GB Velociraptor Corsair AX850 psu
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ritaylor Total Posts : 165 Joined: 9/2/2004 Status: offline Ribbons: 1	Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Thursday, June 02, 2011 10:14 AM (permalink) Did anyone answer what the unconfigured status refers to? EVGA Classified3 Core i7 990x 12 GB Corsair Vengeance 1600 @ 9-9-9-24 2T EVGA GTX 570 600GB Intel SSD 600GB Velociraptor Corsair AX850 psu
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Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Friday, June 17, 2011 5:40 PM (permalink)

No idea. but i did see improvement with 91x 1401fw latest driver with a 7200.11 seagate doesnt saturate out as much after having a gaming session load speeds are better. I did do a bench between 1401 and 1701 they both vary and are not so consistant until you leave the the pc to settle with read and write, with my tests 1701 has slight faster speeds.

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nullack Total Posts : 207 Joined: 5/5/2010 Status: offline	Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Friday, June 17, 2011 5:48 PM (permalink) I believe it means that there is no raid configuration setup, which may or may not be a problem depending on what config you want. For me since I have a single SSD on that chip I want the bios raid to say unconfigured cos I have no raid.
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Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Friday, June 17, 2011 8:44 PM (permalink)

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EVGA_ShannonR

The Firmware and Software below is applicable to the following mainboards:

EVGA CLASSIFIED SR-2
Firmware Version 1.0.0.1701

Shannon: I installed the firmware with no difficulty. But I noticed two things which you might comment on.

1- When I updated the Marvell firmware, the update appears as version 2.2.0.1118. I believe this is correct, not only because my computer is running well but also because, the Marvell driver website lists the version 2.2.0.1118 as the latest firmware for the MV9128, the chip used on the EVGA SR-2 boards. Could you confirm that version 2.2.0.111 is the correct update for the SR-2 board?

This is a very good question and one I'm also keen to have a good answer for. I'm running 1118 without issue so I suspect EVGA have not resourced the time/effort involved qualifying a new revision.

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sr2boy Total Posts : 87 Joined: 2/5/2011 Status: offline	Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Sunday, August 07, 2011 12:00 AM (permalink) For anyone with ssd problem try 1701 firmware it sloved my ssd issuie with installing windows x64 sp1 where is 1401 i could not install windows and had bsod <message edited by sr2boy on Sunday, August 07, 2011 12:34 AM>
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Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Tuesday, August 30, 2011 5:18 PM (permalink)

Lately i have been getting alot of freezes bsods with the sata 3 marvell port with a corsair 120gb force gt. I have installed the latest firmware 1.3 for the drive and still with problems im just wondering will there ever been another firmware update that can reslove this issuie or is it a corsair problem/sandforce problem? Sata 2 intel port seems to work fine thus far. Wondering if the mods can let us know

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Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Monday, September 05, 2011 10:15 AM (permalink)

Heya

I have issue - I get this once I 2x click it

sata 6g 1710.exe is not a valid win32 application

What to do nao ? ^^

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sr2boy Total Posts : 87 Joined: 2/5/2011 Status: offline	Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Monday, September 05, 2011 2:25 PM (permalink) you have to burn it on a cd as a bootable iso i think, marvell need to release a better firmware, we are having some problems on the sata 3 port with some ssd's
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Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Thursday, September 08, 2011 11:19 AM (permalink)

Heya

How do I burn it ? :/

I 2x click on iso, but when I click on burn the status say ''the selected disc image file isn't valid'' - help? ;s

Edit - fixed turns out opera didnt download file... its updated n working.

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Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Friday, September 23, 2011 5:20 PM (permalink)

i still would like to know when are we likely to see a firmware update there is problems with 1701 firmware with bsods freezing , corsair have even said its not there problem anymore, the firmware is clearly out of date and nothing gets done, also regarding revodrive x3 is there ever going to be a fix with the bios to boot?

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sleewok Total Posts : 88 Joined: 11/17/2010 Status: offline	Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Sunday, October 16, 2011 2:46 PM (permalink) I couldn't get it to flash with the CDROM. I ended up having to use a USB floppy. I tried burning 2 separate disks. Anyways, I noticed a boost in write speed for my drives, and actually had a decrease in read speed at the front end of ATTO. This is with the latest bios and driver.
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jackwills Total Posts : 11 Joined: 10/18/2011 Status: offline	Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Thursday, October 20, 2011 12:35 AM (permalink) When one days i just chek it out then i was very shocked how can do this more clear to visibility purposes and When i used this one of new SATA III/6G then i get more clearity iof our results.
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Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Saturday, October 22, 2011 1:16 AM (permalink)

I was hoping that this would fix the issues with my Vertex boot drive, seems to have helped performance, but still get oddities on boot where the drive doesn't detect an OS :S I think it might be time to upgrade the SSD...

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geort45 Total Posts : 490 Joined: 4/6/2010 Status: offline	Re:SATA III/6G Firmware Update version 1701 Monday, December 12, 2011 4:26 PM (permalink) What are the max speeds for those sata 6Gb/s ports? Are they capped? Or would they really support OCZ Vertex 3 speeds? I don't have any sata6 disks now but someday :P new: http://www.heatware.com/eval.php?id=73808
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