Hello fellow tinkerers.
This is my first post after joining VOGONS forum and I have to say what a great forum for all the obscure old attic stuff, and I thought I would update this thread with my findings having
gotten around to playing with this ITE 8212F adapter recently.
I've recently flashed with great success the ITE 8212F cards using old motherboards without having to resort to using a chip programmer to get around the flash hangs that tend to
happen on modernish motherboards. I think the ITE's flash tool is hard coded for the ICH6 southbridges and below from within the time period the adapter was sold
(I used ICH2 and 815 coppermine P3 socket 370 board from 2001). It then flashed successfully without the verify hang.
Also the bios and drivers posted on this thread are not the latest and were a complete pig to locate, so I'm attaching and uploading these. As well as proof my method
flashed the card.
Unlike the ITE 8211 non raid cards there are no ATAPI specific drivers for the 8212F I could find and you must exclusively use the raid ones for 8212F.
However I did try flashing a 8211 rom into 8212 to gain access to the 8211 earlier versioned ATAPI drivers for the 8211. It works but you have to force on the drivers and they are unsigned.
However shortly after I found the latest equivalent 8212F ATAPI rom with same versioning instead of having to use the 8211 one, and I had more success using an older version of the flasher.
I also found the card in raid mode didn't get along nicely with some hardware causing those devices to disappear (conflicts???) but the ATAPI firmware was fine.
So here are the last versions available for the ITE 8212F. Files have some documentation inside.
ITE 8212F Drivers 1.7.2.9
ITE 8212F Raid BIOS 1.7.1.96
ITE 8212F ATAPI BIOS 1.7.1.64