Is there a switch in the winnt.sif or unattend.txt or elsewhere that would prevent windows from loading a RAID/AHCI driver?

I've been using the same unattended CD that I've built up years ago on my new Asus P5B-Del/Intel Q6600 based machine. Long story short, I cannot get the driver for the onboard AHCI driver to work. I've tried both the floppy disk/F6 method and the method Intel recommends (copy the files over to <SystemRoot>:\i386\$OEM$\Textmode as well as add lines to UNATTEND.TXT

What happens is it sees the drives okay and allows me to select a partition to install the O/S, but hangs up on the "copying files" stage telling me it can't read iaStor.sys and I can either retry or skip.

If I use a non unattended CD slipstreamed w/ SP2 it doesn't hang at this step which makes me think there has to be some switch in my files that prevents this. Anyone?

Thanks!

I had the same problem. The trick is to add the SATA driver to the CD as per the instructions here. I was never successful utilizing F6 to get the SATA drivers loaded from the floppy, I'd get the cannot read iastor.sys error.

MSFN's Unattended Windows: RAID/SATA

Here is my txtsetup.sif entry for Intel® 82801FBM SATA AHCI Controller. This is based on the txtsetup.oem file that is a part of the manufacturer's F6 Floppy.

[SourceDisksFiles]
iastor.sys = 1,,,,,,_x,4,1

[SCSI.Load]
iaStor = iastor.sys,4

[HardwareIdsDatabase]
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2652&CC_0106 = "iaStor"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2653&CC_0106 = "iaStor"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C1&CC_0106 = "iaStor"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C5&CC_0106 = "iaStor"


[SCSI]
iaStor = "Intel® 82801FBM SATA AHCI Controller"

Edited July 5, 200719 yr by Sinistrality