SATA Raid drivers for WinXP installation on PT8 Neo-V motherboard

[osi]

Hi there,

I have a PT8 NEO-V motherboard from MSI, currently running WinXP on a classic IDE PATA drive (which I want to put away), I have 2 other SATA drives with some partitions installed correctly.

My goal is to install WinXP on one of the SATA drives, to one spesific partition.

I dowloaded the latest RAID drivers from the MSI web, integrated them to a install CD via nLite, but when I boot from the CD, the installation doesn't recognize any of the SATA drives.

In BIOS it doesn't seem to give any options such as: Native SATA, AHCI. Just the enable/disable SATA is there.

I don't have a floppy drive.

Any idea why the nLited CD doesn't work?

(maybe upgrading the BIOS could help... )

THNX 4 any reply

POSLEDN__RELACE.INI

[Ponch]

My goal is to install WinXP on one of the SATA drives, to one specific partition.

I dowloaded the latest RAID drivers from the MSI web

Do you have RAID options in your Bios?

Anyway, either you want RAID or install to one drive, not both(??).

[Sp0iLedBrAt]

What is the difference between these two (from you Last_Session.ini)?

VIARaid\DRIVER\Raid\winxp\VIAMRAID.INF,0

VIARAID_OM74\DriverDisk\RAID\Winxp\VIAMRAID.INF,0

From what I know and have seen, it's desirable to include one SATA/RAID driver in TXT mode. Since you also included AGP and IDE drivers, it could be that you simply put all in PnP mode.

[johnhc]

osi, you have included no text mode drivers. You need a driver with a txtsetup.oem file. I cannot tell what kind of chip set you have but Fernando 1 (the driver expert here) has a couple of sticky posts at the top that may have the drivers you need for RAID and/or AHCI text mode. Enjoy, John.

[Fernando 1]

@ osi:

If your SATA hdd's are running in RAID mode, you should download the small VIA RAID driver package, which I have prepared for the XP CD integration. You can get it >here<.

Just unzip and integrate it as textmode driver.

Good luck!

Fernando