Hi All, Just registered and my first post. I have been reading all the posts in this topic since late 2007 and finally got to some that I could respond to knowing that they are still reasonably current. Ihave some Dell 755's to roll out and have come across the nic and sata problem. I resolved the nic problem by doing the tried and tested approach of copying them into the flat image i386, restart the service and away to go. I then came across the (becoming more common) problem of the hard drive not being detected (seen this various times over the last year, with promise and intel sata\raid hardware) and so far so good all roll outs have been successful. I have just altered the bios to change the h\drive from ahci to ata on the Dell 755 and it rolls out fine, after copying the storage drivers into i386 (I always use the drivers that come with the pc, as it was working when I got it, so why change them to roll them out!!!). I am now trying to roll them out using the original configuration in bios of ahci and I am having the 'hard drive not detected' error. I know that my ristndrd.sif will need to have a 'MassStorageDrivers' section created and have done that and also an 'OEMBootFiles' section but so far I am still getting the 'hard drive not detected' error which is baffling me a bit. What I would like to know is what differences am I likely to see by running the hard drives as ata instead of ahci and has anyone got a definitive example of how to configure ris for sata\scsi\raid driver installation, by that I mean where the textmode folder goes and where else will the files need to go for my images and what is required in my ristndrd.sif or riprep.sif txt file for it all to work. I have in the past managed to roll out a raided(striped) pc (my 2nd gamer) using ris, but am at a loss as to what I am doing wrong with this Dell 755 pc and it's sata drive. I will continue with my attempt to get it right, but if push comes to shove will just roll them out using ata instead of ahci. Any help would be appreciated and I hope I can be of some help in the future. Thanks Ade C Update. I have now got ris rolling out Dell 755's using ahci set in bios as originally configured, I had a major typo error (so big it wasn't obvious, DOH!)(lol!).
