hi

i am wondering about something

just wanna hear some more ideas

lets say i have two raid controllers from via(viasraid and viaraid)

these two drivers have the same hardware id's(in the inf)

can i use one of the drivers to install both controllers??????????????

are these device id's unique?????????(no two can be the same)?????????????

should i use both drivers and their winntsif entries?????????

how will windows xp know to load the right driver if it has the same hardware id's for both?????????????

thanks in advance

any thought would be appreciated

i believe it is the same harware, just working in different mode...

Is this an abstract example or do you really have those two controllers?

how will windows xp know to load the right driver if it has the same hardware id's for both?????????????

it will work...

except it maybe won't work in optimal way... but it will probably be unnoticable

yes

i have 2 computers both asus boards

one uses viaraid.sys the other uses viasraid.sys

i checked the device id's and its the same as viamraid

so does that mean i have to add those drivers too to windows(txtsetup.sif,\i386 and driverz.exe)

or just use the viamraid(or any other driver from via with same device id)

i dont think windows is that smart to "know" what the right and optimal driver is for every controller if it has multiple drivers with same device id