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Software / Ris Install - Promise Raid Driver

« on: June 29, 2003, 08:44:02 PM »

Hi All!

I read that  Q article in question, mentioned by our pal, Jazkal2,  and it is Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 28834.

I am a newbie to these forums and have a limited knowledge of PCs and like our pal fpulliam I am trying to pull a similar stroke with my PC.

I would like to do a full install without the need for a floppy,  or the use of the F6 key, just
boot with the cd ........... go away..........and return to a fresh desktop. The PC has an ABIT KR7A-RAID m/board.  The drivers for it are on a floppy disk.  I am trying to setup a xp sp1 bootable cd with the drivers for the m/board included.  Through these great forums I have travelled a long way.  I have followed any instructions to the best I can.  The drivers for the m/board are installed DRIVE:\XP\CD-ROOT\I386\$OEM$\Textmode folder.  I have tried to create a TXTSETUP.OEM in the same folder.  I fire up the pc, with a hard drive which is not  partitioned or formatted.  It boots from my newly compiled cd and  tips along....I ignore the press F6 request......and then a little bit later, this message appears:

\"File txtsetup.oem caused an unexpected error (18) at line
  1742 in d:\xpsp1\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.c.\"

I get an option to press any key to continue.......which I do on the off-chance
of a miracle, but then  when it reboots to setup, I get this message:

\"The manufacturer provided file that Setup is trying to use
  is corrupted or invalid:
 Line 1 contains a syntax error.\"


This raid device is an onboard,  HPT370/372 Host Adapter Device.
Below the line is what the textsetup.oem file supplied on the floppy contains.
_____________________________________________________________


d1 = \"HighPoint HPT370/372 IDE RAID Driver Diskette\", \Disk1, \
d2 = \"HighPoint HPT370/372 IDE RAID Driver Diskette\", \Disk1, \Winnt
d3 = \"HighPoint HPT370/372 IDE RAID Driver Diskette\", \Disk1, \Win2k
d4 = \"HighPoint HPT370/372 IDE RAID Driver Diskette\", \Disk1, \WinXP

scsi = Hpt3xxNT

[scsi]
Hpt3xxNT = \"Hpt370/372 IDE RAID Controller for WinNT 4.0\", Hpt3xxNT
Hpt3xx2K = \"Hpt370/372 IDE RAID Controller for Win2000\", Hpt3xxNT
Hpt3xxXP = \"Hpt370/372 IDE RAID Controller for WinXP\", Hpt3xx

[Files.scsi.Hpt3xxNT]
driver = d2, HPT3xxNT.sys, Hpt3xxNT
inf    = d2, hpt3xxNT.inf, Hpt3xxNT

[Config.scsi.Hpt3xxNT]
value = \"\", Tag, REG_DWORD, 1
value = \"Parameters\PnpInterface\", 5, REG_DWORD, 1

[Files.scsi.Hpt3xx2K]
driver = d3, HPT3xxNT.sys, Hpt3xxNT
inf    = d3, hpt3xxNT.inf, Hpt3xxNT

[Files.scsi.Hpt3xxXP]
driver = d4, Hpt3xx.sys, Hpt3xx
inf    = d4, Hpt3xx.inf, Hpt3xx
inf    = d4, Rcm.inf, Hpt3xx

[Config.Hpt3xx]
value = \"\", Tag, REG_DWORD, 1
value = \"Parameters\PnpInterface\", 5, REG_DWORD, 1

[HardwareIds.scsi.Hpt3xx2K]
id = \"PCI\VEN_1103&DEV_0004\",\"Hpt3xxNT\"

[HardwareIds.scsi.Hpt3xxXP]
id = \"PCI\VEN_1103&DEV_0004\",\"Hpt3xx\"

__________________________________________________________-

This is what I thought might work for an XP install only. I took out what I
considered to be of no use.


[Disks]
d1 = \"HighPoint HPT370/372 IDE RAID Driver Diskette\", \Disk1, \

[Defaults]
scsi = Hpt3xxNT

[scsi]
Hpt3xxXP = \"Hpt370/372 IDE RAID Controller for WinXP\", Hpt3xx

[Files.scsi.Hpt3xxXP]
driver = d1, Hpt3xx.sys, Hpt3xx
inf    = d1, Hpt3xx.inf, Hpt3xx
inf    = d1, Rcm.inf, Hpt3xx

[Config.Hpt3xx]
value = \"\", Tag, REG_DWORD, 1
value = \"Parameters\PnpInterface\", 5, REG_DWORD, 1

[HardwareIds.scsi.Hpt3xxXP]
id = \"PCI\VEN_1103&DEV_0004\",\"Hpt3xx\"
 

I tried changing  the last ' backslash ' to a ' period ' at ...... Diskette\", \Disk1, \     in the first lineas suggested but it did'nt work.

Any ideas would be welcomed.

In relation to partitioning the drive, I would prefer 1 primary dos, formatted with fat32. What winnt.sif entries should be made?


Thanks to everyone.  

P.S. A large 'pat on the back' for the inventor of rewritable cds.