i upgraded mine, didnt butch the thing;
this works very poorly on amd platforms

Do you still happen to have the bios files?

Acquired the files from ITE, in case anyone needs them later..

sorry, i did not see You there; so how does it work for You performance wise?

Because I saw this thread, I bought an ITE8212F (IT8212) PCI ATA-133 Controller, because my new motherboard do not offer any PATA connector anymore.
It was a Lindy 51112 PCI Ultra ATA-133 Controller, which offers RAID functionality also.
Unfortunately this controller does not recognize any removable media drive (ZIP, LS-120) but mainly a LS-120 was the reason I need also PATA.
At boot time, it scans for any IDE device, but the LS-120 (which works properly in an older AM2+ PC) isn't detected.
I guess this is related with a different handling of hard disk drives vs. removable media drives.
So I thought it would be a good idea to flash the controller's BIOS now (with the INT13H.BIN image from this thread).
But at the end of the flash procedure, verify fails. The original BIOS of the controller is still there, unchanged.
There are no jumper to permit flash (or deny). The two JP1 and JP2 are for enabling Primary and Secondary, but for nothing else.
This idiotic original firmware does not offer ANY kind of configuration (you can't press any key for configuration at boot time).
And last but not least, I found a management software for it (within the 51112 archive Lindy offers still), but it's only running on 32bit OS (not x64 compatible, but I am using Win 7 x64).
This is very ugly. I guess I can't do anything but throwing this controller card into the trash can.
My last idea is to insert this piece of sh*t (the controller) into an older PC with a 32bit OS (e.g. Windows XP) and try to configure it with the management software I found.
Do you have any other idea I can rescue the situation ?

P.S.: Added later after a intensely googling session: http://www.aoaforums.com/forum/os-software-fi … oller-card.html <- most of the cards can't be flashed 🙁

!WE line of the flash chip needs to be isolated and connected to the required pin on the controller, only then will the updates to its BIOS be possible.

What does that mean ? Isolated means desoldering ? Plug in a Eprom burner (which is able to program flash chips) ? Sounds difficult and it means too much effort (card will be thrown into trash can, as already said).
And there is no "!WE line", the chip is a Holtek HT27C512-70B, which sounds like an one-time programmable EPROM (because there is no small window to erase it with UV light).
Also, I was even not able to *read* out the ROM content with UNIFLASH (contained only zeros).

Cutting a trace to the pin if it is tied to VCC and soldering it to the !WE line from the controller (one of the IDE2 pins) if it already isn't there. But anyway 27C512 is indeed an OTP EPROM so no upgrading that without swapping chips.

!WE means Write Enable (you should not use abbreviations without a first explanation), ok.
Anyway, as you also stated, it will not work with an EPROM. I have bought online another ITE8212 based controller with the "right" PROM content (*not* a RAID BIOS). Next time this should be mentioned before writing such threads (means: Recommend only ITE8212 based IDE controller which are explicitely NOT a RAID controller, instead they should be explicitely ATAPI "non-RAID" controller).

I found a bunch of these controllers in an old company warehouse and decided to add one to my vintage computer (which has an 8 gigabyte limit). Unfortunately, all of these controllers had an ancient RAID BIOS in a OTP ROM soldered on the board. I decided to replace them with FLASH and fresh ATAPI BIOS. Luckily I read the spec sheet on the 39f010 and 27c512 before doing it. They have different pins. After some googling I found a Winbond 27c512 chip which is electrically erasable and I flashed bios_8212ATAPI-093015-02 with my TL866.

appiah4 wrote on 2018-11-07, 22:06:

Acquired the files from ITE, in case anyone needs them later..

THANK YOU!

alec_v wrote on 2022-11-26, 23:25:

Unfortunately, all of these controllers had an ancient RAID BIOS in a OTP ROM soldered on the board.

Is it really MX 27C512QC is OTP ? I see on the photo "vpp=12.5v" on it.

P.S. Looked up in the datasheet - yes, it is

MOAR ITE controllers 😀 😀

I know this is an old thread, but this could be helpful for someone.
Here's the Wayback Archive link with working links for latest version of software and firmware for IT8212F:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070623122326/ht … e_download2.asp

bitterlemon wrote on 2024-05-19, 22:47:

I know this is an old thread, but this could be helpful for someone.
Here's the Wayback Archive link with working links for latest version of software and firmware for IT8212F:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070623122326/ht … e_download2.asp

Seeing as all three of these are newer than what I got from ITE, I'll attach them to this post for convenience.

appiah4 wrote on 2024-05-20, 06:05:

bitterlemon wrote on 2024-05-19, 22:47:

I know this is an old thread, but this could be helpful for someone.
Here's the Wayback Archive link with working links for latest version of software and firmware for IT8212F:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070623122326/ht … e_download2.asp

Seeing as all three of these are newer than what I got from ITE, I'll attach them to this post for convenience.

Sadly, drivers files are corrupt from the link i provided before (FW files are good). Latest version of the drivers could be downloaded from this link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070423063439/ht … 33%20Controller

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