Serial ATA support on clean install

[Mr.Garrison]

Ok there is this little (common) problem I have; Whenever I want to do a clean XP install on my SATA WD Raptor it won't find it just cause there is no driver on the cd that supports my SATA controller (SIL 3112 I believe). If I want to, I must install the drivers by pressing F6 (or maybe F2) before the install loads the drivers.

Now here comes the problem: I don't have any floppy installed and I refuse to install one again just cause the whole hardware market is so god **** conservative and can't include USB-stick support or anything like that.

I thought the solution might be an unattended XP cd and I've just read about the $OEM$\Textmode directory. Please give me some help on this one cause I'm dying to crack this nut.

[RyanVM]

http://greenmachine.msfnhosting.com/READING/addraid.htm

[Mr.Garrison]

Man I'm used to getting p***ed on people who don't search the forums I'm on, but this time I made that mistake myself. Right after I had posted this message I saw that there was an unattended driver section too...

[RyanVM]

Man I'm used to getting p***ed on people who don't search the forums I'm on, but this time I made that mistake myself. Right after I had posted this message I saw that there was an unattended driver section too...

[[BM]Crusher]

there is a specific package which might suit you better, called the raid drivers package or similar, do a forum search for that...

it adds a whole bunch or raid drivers into your disk automatically, including 4 different silicon image controllers (including SI3112a of course)