2003 driver question

[fdv]

hi folks!

i am wondering if 2003 and xp support the same devices/have the same driver set on cd.

let me clarify by explaining what i am doing.

i am building a server that will have 2003 on it.

i am going to put an LSI DC-390U3 scsi controller in it with 2 scsi drives. i know that windows xp has drivers for this card and recognizes it automatically upon install. i want to transplant the controller card into this new machine i am building and want 2003 to recognize it, because there aren't any 2003 drivers on the manufacturer's website.*

i could make a bartpe of 2003 to test but it's a waste if one of you folks know the answer, and i have no doubt that someone here does, msfn has a lot of 2003 experts.

thanks for any help...

fdv

Additional details for the 2003 wizards who might need this info, I don't know if its relevant

*okay, for those of you who want to reply on this point, i didnt want to get into this in the body of the question, but here it is. the manufacturers, LSI and Tekram, have a driver for "2000 and xp." i tested the driver in a 2003 virtual machine and it gave me an error saying that the INF was bad because it had a "line missing" (which one? didn't say) and was due to the driver being for "windows 95 or later" even though the INF had the $Windows NT$ signature string, not $chicago$. however, i have a BartPE made from winXP laying around. i stuck this cd in the machine the scsi controller is in right now, and it booted right up and recognized the controller and drives. so, i know for sure that the microsoft driver on the install cd for xp works fine. i have not tested the manufacturer-provided xp driver in xp, however. it should be noted that the MS and manufacturer drivers are, in fact, different.

[nmX.Memnoch]

Generally if Windows XP has built in drivers for a SCSI controller then Server 2003 does as well. Server 2003, being a newer operating system than XP, should have more built-in drivers than XP does.

However, if it doesn't then the XP driver you downloaded should work. I even have a Promise SuperTrak100 in a Server 2003 box using the Windows 2000 driver because Promise pretty much dropped support for that controller. It's been running that way for years without issue.

Edit:

It turns out that Tekram does list a Server 2003 driver on their site (page 2 of the DC-390 drivers), however the file isn't on the server.

http://www.tekram.com/downloads/Storage/SC...323/Win2003.zip

You could probably email them to get the driver.

Edited February 12, 2006 by nmX.Memnoch