Multiple SATA drivers on 1 floppy?

[anlaoch]

Does anyone know if it's possible to take the SATA drivers for different makes of device and merge them onto one floppy? I'm thinking it'd be handy for using with a bartpe even if you weren't sure of the make of the hdd.

All help appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[jaclaz]

No, it's not easily done, but you may want to try grub4dos and "Virtual" floppy images:

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=20543

This way you can choose among a number of floppy images.

If you use gzip compressed images or (using memdisk) .zip compressed ones, a floppy image will be really small, and several will fit on the single floppy.

This way is also easy to add a new driver or "mantain" the collection of drivers.

jaclaz

[derniwi]

Hi,

why don't you integrate the drivers into Bart PE?

Nils.

[anlaoch]

I'm not familiar enough with the BartPE process: I've used it once or twice only. However, let's say for arguements sake there are 10 or so popular sets of SATA drivers in common use, I didn't think BartPE would allow you to integrate 10 sets of cat, inf, & sys files. Will it allow that?

Thanks.

[derniwi]

Hi,

give it a try.

In your Bart PE folder should a folder "drivers" exist.

Usually there is a subfolder "storage" (but this is only nice to have).

Create for each floppy disk a new subfolder there and copy your floppy disk containing TXTSETUP.OEM with the complete structure into this folders.

Then it should work.

Regards, Nils.

[jaclaz]

Will it allow that?

Yes, it will.

The problem might come with some of (unfortunately very common) drivers that use the same driver filename for different drivers.

The "usual" easiest way is to use BTS Driverpacks:

http://downloads.littlbuger.info/index.php?dlid=915

http://driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/DriverPack.php?pag=b

jaclaz

[anlaoch]

Many thanks to all.

There's loads of useful stuff here for me. Much obliged to all who contributed.

BFN.