Windows Vista BETA 1 (SATA RAID)


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I have the Si3112 SATA Raid controller and when I click 'Load Driver' and provide Vista with the XP 32-Bit, it detects my drive and partitions fine and begins installing, but right about 50% through the installation, it restarts the computer and when it tries to get into Vista, gives me the ...7B BSOD saying it can't find any Mass Storage Devices.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

-Thanks

-Ben

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I have the Promise 376/378 RAID/SATA Setup. The WinXP drivers wont even show when the disk is inserted and the drivers are not present in the Vista Install.

If you try to install via WinXP after the 1st restart, right after the boot logo, the system displays the BSOD Stop message

Kev

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I am also having trouble with VIA VT8237 Sata drivers. Anybody have a solution yet?Pretty funny that Vista'll detect my flash drive and think it's okay to install onto it, but wont even run from my primary drive.

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I am running Vista on an ASUS P5WD2 Premium with an integrated Silicon SATA RAID card and the Intel 82801GB ICH7R SATA RAID card. I have two 160GB WD Sata drives connected to the intel controller and a driver disk downloaded from the Intel site for an F6 preinstall load. The installation failed several times but after many tries, everything went smoothly.

If you have the intel mass storage card above you will have to manually install drivers. You may also have to update your bios.

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Yup, cant get any of my drives to show...

Setup

2x120 gb sata drives on RAID 0(silicon)

1 230 gb partition and 1 10 gig partition(for VISTA)

on a Abit IC7 Max 3

tried to load SATA drivers and RAID drivers from cd, no luck

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I have the Promise 376/378 RAID/SATA Setup.  The WinXP drivers wont even show when the disk is inserted and the drivers are not present in the Vista Install.

If you try to install via WinXP after the 1st restart, right after the boot logo, the system displays the BSOD Stop message

Kev

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I found that if you move the WinXP drivers from you raid disk onto a disk (without folders just the files for WinXP) and select Load Drivers on vista select disk screen then it will see them. I have WINXP in RAID0 on the promise controller and vista on an IDE and couldn't dual boot untill I loaded the drivers for my raid.

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LISTEN UP!!!!

For all of you wanting to install ANY kind of driver into the installation environment, click Install Windows on the first screen, then, press SHIFT+F10. This will pop up a command prompt. Navigate to the media you have the drivers on, and find an inf file. Type "drvload <inf here>" replacing <inf here> with the inf file of the driver. When you go to disks if it initially dosen't show up, click refresh.

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LISTEN UP!!!!

For all of you wanting to install ANY kind of driver into the installation environment, click Install Windows on the first screen, then, press SHIFT+F10.  This will pop up a command prompt.  Navigate to the media you have the drivers on, and find an inf file.  Type "drvload <inf here>" replacing <inf here> with the inf file of the driver.  When you go to disks if it initially dosen't show up, click refresh.

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Justed tested this with Sil3112r Controller... For me, it just took the place of the 'Load Driver' button and allowed me to see my drives when I got to that part without having to actually hit the button, but upon reboot I still get the ...7B BSOD telling me it can't find any Mass Storage Controllers...

Thanks for the suggestion though...

Ben

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I have the Promise 376/378 RAID/SATA Setup.  The WinXP drivers wont even show when the disk is inserted and the drivers are not present in the Vista Install.

If you try to install via WinXP after the 1st restart, right after the boot logo, the system displays the BSOD Stop message

Kev

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I've just found what to do for the Promise 376/378 RAID/SATA controller.

Go on ASUS ftp here:

ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/TREIBER/...OMISE/PDC20378/

and take this file: P378_A150_B26.ZIP

Then on your device manager, select your unrecognized promise controller, update driver, and use the 2003 driver included in the zip.

Installed a few minutes ago, and the hard drives that were on this controller just appeared in windows explorer.

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