I was able to get the 221108-003E-00 firmware from YBBOTT, but this site won’t let me upload due to being a new user. They did ask for my purchase order #(s), but no big deal.
I was amazed they replied through amazon multiple times and hooked me up w/ a temp. link
I know a hot plug flag may be more desirable for a RAID setup. That said, disabling the ‘remove hardware’ flag on taskbar is nice for general usage. I can easily swap firmware if desired now thanks to YBBOTT, silverstonetek and present contributors.
Mine came w/ 221118-00-48-00 no hot plug, i notice no difference in performance other than no hot plug between it and 221118-0000-00. 32 ports still show???, legacy/uefi work, Boots plenty fast w/ 10 drives…more than 6 (ports above 0-5) on one card rely on jmb chips and wont come back from sleep no matter what i tried - didn’t try ATAPI or RAID tho.
Equal performance and behavior on 221118-003E-00 no hot plug.
These tools bricked my 10Gtek 4-port AS1064. It had a 20 series FW. Oh well, amazon will deal w/ it.
I wanted a super SFF 4 port, but it had hot plug so i tried the flash, these drivers really need a simple toggle for that feature like they had in windows 7 apparently.
The tool and w/e 22/21 firmware work great on my 1166 cards.
It seems to me this:
221118-0000-00 to 221118-003E-00 = brick
221118-003E-00 to 221118-0000-00 = work
211108-0000-00 to 221118-0000-00 = work for sure.
This is only for 1064 conclusions.
So use 221118-003E-00 with caution.
I received a replacement 10Gtek 4 port ASMEDIA 1064
To be fair, the flashtool v. 1.2.1.0 (v 1.2 same readout) does state: “SPI Name: Unknown not unsupported”
I took a chance on this easily replaced $20 card.
I am guessing the Chip maybe a knock off as the 1064 is said to work w/ this flashtool in a previous comment (not me).
The FW it came w/ is 201105-0018-00.
I did try the 221118-003E-00 FW on it w/ V 1.2.1.0 tool and it bricked.
I don’t think I’ll try the 211108-0000-00 or 221118-0000-00 on it as what I am after is NO hot plug and both of those are w/ hot plug.
The 221118-003E-00, no hot plug, has been tested by me on YBBOTT and Mzhou 1166 cards and is completely good to go back and forth w/ 221118-0000-00, hot plug.
A registry hack would be ideal, yet to find one that works to disable hot plug…sigh.
I’m gonna fiddle w/ legacy/uefi, etc. in BIOS and see…not holding my breathe.
Thanks again.
Just wanted to add some specifics since i can see it on the new card.
So if the 221118-003E-00 FW is already on the card and it works out of the box (keep in mind no hot plug support), it would be the best option to leave it as it is, I guess. As its the latest release.
To have hot plug support, the way to go is with 221118-0000-00 as it was released after 211108-0000-00 and in general it seems the best option overall.
Am I correct with this?
What would be the better option? A 6port ASM1064 or 6port ASM1166 ?
The significant differencies are (in case of a 6port card) that every single port has an own lane for full bandwidth on ASM1166. Would mean go with the ASM1166 for sure.
My 1064 experience was a sample of one from 10Gtek: The SPI was NOT recognized by the FWtool.
If the SPI IS recognize by the FWtool then it will probably work fine, but I only speculate here.
1166 is the way to go for sure unless you are trying for a minimum physical footprint as was my case. Trying to nuzzle up my 4-port next to my SFF GPU and not block fans in a HTPC.
The 221118-0000-00 and 221118-003E-00 FW are the best I can find on the webs to date.
I would like to know what software I need to check the current firmware and how/where to get the most appropriate firmware for it. It will be on Win11. Interestingly, 10GTEK does not have it even listed on their website.
My ASM1166 came with 221118-00-48-00. I desoldered the EEPROM before dumping it with a CH341A programmer. My dump is originally 512KiB but the ASM116x flashing tool found on Silverstone’s site doesn’t accept it; seems like it only will take 128KiB.
I trimmed it to that size, the data after the 128 KiB mark on the EEPROM was all zeroes anyway.
I flashed the 003E file shared earlier on this thread, rebooted, tested with ATTO disk benchmark and then flashed my trimmed ROM and did the same to verify that I dumped and trimmed correctly.
No in-depth testing, since I’ll flash 003E again, but here you go:
Use the trimmed rom with the tool on Silverstone’s site.
PS: I usually lurk on this forum but made an account to share this.
EDIT:
The 003E fw that I downloaded earlier was not okay.
I only performed PCIe bus resets, after turning power off and on again I kept getting PCIe communication errors which made some other PCIe devices unresponsive. I ended up desoldering the EEPROM again and flashing it with my CH341A programmer.
Thanks for this 0048 version I will try it out soon.
Also for anyone who inadvertently bricks their 1166/1062 adapters trying wrong flash/corrupted etc out it can some times be recovered if you cannot boot/post anymore with the card plugged in cos it’s bricked/garbled by hot-plugging the asmedia PCIe card after windows has loaded then using the asmedia windows based flash tool to flash. PCIe standard supports hot-plugging of cards and is actually part of the standard, however Windows of itself does not.
I’ve recovered at least one bad flashed card using this method when the computer was just hanging on boot and wouldn’t continue due to garbled flash. It’s a similar method to hot-flashing a bios chip, but you do this at your own risk. It worked for me as a last resort instead of binning the card, but there is always a risk that you could fry your motherboard. I think it works because while windows doesn’t detect the post boot hot-plugged SATA adapter, the flash software itself does, but you can’t boot with a bricked card which prevents the flash in any case.
I actually ended up not getting that card as I realized that, in upgrading my system (Asus TUF X99 mobo to Asus ROG STRIX X870E-E) I would be saving the SATA slot that I needed by going with an M.2 drive. I’m now only using the 4 SATA ports on the mobo plus my LSI SAS2 2308 Mustang controller card (8 SATA cables). I have not yet hooked up all the drives, still getting the basics configured.
I also use 3 LSI Falcon 2008 4 port SATA cards (not SAS) as well as the various ASM cards, which maximizes any x8 slot being fully x8 and can offer all the bandwidth to cope with any SSD at full speed, unlike the x4 or should we say really x2 ASM cards.
Problem with these server cards is they need their own 40mm fans ghetto rigging as they get hot otherwise and are meant for server racks that constantly have airflow not desktops, which then takes the slot below it out of commission due to the fan. I can’t always be bothered with deploying them just out of convenience, as the smaller asm cards don’t need fans.
See if this package helps for unbricking 1064… 20x series FW and docs/flasher. Might have to make a dos floppy similar to ASM 1062. It’s a 2020 firmware and not a windows flasher.
I can confirm the trimmed 128K 0048-0000 .rom works on all my 6-port ASM 1166 adapters without issue. Obviously no hotplug anymore. But with system drives this isn’t really an issue.
