I decided to give Sil3114 another shot after finding out that the firmware/BIOS can be flashed in order to remove the RAID part. Well.. with my Socket 370 board, 120 GB SSD and Win98se... it's now working perfectly fine.

I just succeeded in booting from sata ssd on my Pentium 200 PC. My motherboard is ASUS xp55t2p4, running 0207_J2.BIN patched bios. Flashed the card with r5073.bin bios file and set the motherboard to boot SCSI first. Other 3114 bios images, either IDE or RAID (5403 and 5500), didn't work for me.
I am running windows XP for testing and Si3114r_x86_10210 works fine.

aaron158 wrote on 2022-05-14, 14:34:

i had nothing but issues trying to get a Sil3112 card going on a p3b-f with all but the oldest bios for the sata card installed it would just freeze up when it tried to pick up drives. with the oldest bios it would work u could install windows 98 but then once u did a shut down everything would get corrupted.

i ended up getting a maxtor branded version of the promise sata 150 card since the promise versions were so over priced and that worked perfectly out of the box.

Boohyaka wrote on 2022-05-14, 14:43:

Same experience. I had nothing but trouble with a Sil3112 and ended up buying a Promise SATA150 and everything has been so easy and stable.

For me Sil3112 works rock stable
440BX board with Win98SE and SSD drive
Firmware: 4.2.70 (non-RAID)
Driver: 1.2.0.57
Though I never did a fresh install, just cloned partition from IDE HDD using Partition Magic 8.0

Funnily since then I found it a use. Gave it another chance on an AT P2 motherboard, and it runs and boots fine. None of my 440BX boards would reliably boot on it, and in this build it's been flawless so far. Go figure 😀