Vista and massstorage drivers


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I have vista 5231 32 bits

my hdd is a pair of SATA 250gb seagates on a MSI Neo4 Platinum SLI

(the only reason I'm making the switch to vista is because SLI doesn't and will never work on win2k also I wanted to try a 64 bits OS but I haven't found vista 64bits yet)

I burned it to a dvd, then booted it

then when it asked on which harddrive I wanted to install there were no choice available (empty listbox) so I clicked "advanced" and fed it my nvidia sata raid driver floppy that came with my motherboard (it has "for win2k/xp" written on it)

but then it says that the driver specified in nvraid.inf is wrong somehow , I don't remember specifically what the message said , if anyone wants I can't take a couple "screenshots" (well pictures of the monitor with my canon 300d should be readable)

I know from another post that 5219's mass storage driver loading dialog was broken and that at the time there was no work around

I'm curious to know if that's a nvidia specific or nvidia's raid specific problem or do all mass storage device have this problem (promise , via , highpoint , silicon image etc...)

also is there a beta nvidia raid driver (or more recent than 5.10.2600.0479 that came with my motherboard) that might work ?

or is there a way to insert the driver via the unattended installation mechanism like with win2k [massstoragedriver] section in the answer file ?

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(the only reason I'm making the switch to vista is because SLI doesn't and will never work on win2k also I wanted to try a 64 bits OS but I haven't found vista 64bits yet)

Honestly, Vista is not the best gaming OS at the moment. There are some DirectX issues and Vista's unoptimized code just slows down games. Its also unstable.

If you want to try SLI and the x64 architecture, use Windows XP x64 (Its a free one-way upgrade from x86 (32-bit) XP.

In answer to your question, I personally could not (and still can't) get my raid drives working on my Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard so I just stuck in an old IDE drive for testing purposes.

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