Finally sis180 SATA ;)

[corrs_fan]

i must be the only one with one of these sis sata chipsets, cus i cant find anything else written about it. Having finally managed to get to the partition stage using an XPH sp1 cd & an unattended disk install. I thought it may be helpfull to let others know how to acomplish this.

Basically taken from : http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/851350 yes its a dutch posting by the looks of it, but in amongst the first post theres the english bits

anyway the really important parts are the following steps:

9) download the newest SATA RAID drivers from SIS. as of this post, you can get them here.

10) extract the "Sisraid.sys" file into the i386 folder (C:\XPCD\i386\Sisraid.sys)

11) extract the whole SATA driver archive (all the files) to a directory under Drivers, say C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$1\Drivers\SATA.

12) find the TXTSETUP.SIF file in the i386 folder (C:\XPCD\i386\TXTSETUP.SIF) and open it in NOTEPAD.

13) add the following line under [sourceDisksFiles]

sisraid.sys = 1,,,,,,_x,4,1

14) add the following line under [HardwareIdsDatabase]

PCI\VEN_1039&DEV_0180 = "SiSRaid"

15) add the following line under [sCSI.Load]

sisraid = sisraid.sys,4

16) add the following line under [sCSI]

SISRAID_XP = "WinXP SiS Raid/IDE Controller"

17) save your changes to TXTSETUP.SIF

18) create a text file under C:\XPCD\i386 called "WINNT.SIF".

19) open C:\XPCD\i386\WINNT.SIF in notepad, and insert the following lines:

copy the file from the site above, feeling free to tweak to preference, but do follow the syntax of the oemdriverspath section

save the file winnt.sif file as directed, and burn to disk.

23) burn it to a bootable CD

this may be old hat for most here, but given that this chipset is used in many cheaper boards, and i couldnt see any obvious fixes for this, i had to post this.

Alex B