Integrating SATA and RAID drivers with HFSLIP

[Oleg_II]

Sorry my Enlgish As far as I know SYS files are added by HFSLIP right now. I meant adding other files to TXTSETUP.SIF too

As for different versions - you are probably right if there is a driver pack with real files. But right now users are asked to provide the files from their floppies. HFSLIP only adds file names to TXTSETUP.SIF for files that are provided by user and also adds information that are the same for W2k and XP (at least according to the INF files I saw - most of them state the same files and two installation section for W2k and XP in one INF file so should be version independant).

By the way: would you like to handle this topic? B)

Edited October 24, 2006 by Oleg_II

[iTwins]

Sorry my Enlgish As far as I know SYS files are added by HFSLIP right now. I meant adding other files to TXTSETUP.SIF too

As for different versions - you are probably right if there is a driver pack with real files. But right now users are asked to provide the files from their floppies. HFSLIP only adds file names to TXTSETUP.SIF for files that are provided by user and also adds information that are the same for W2k and XP (at least according to the INF files I saw - most of them state the same files and two installation section for W2k and XP in one INF file so should be version independant).

Well, I rest my case then.

By the way: would you like to handle this topic? B)

Thanks for the offer; I'm honored...but I'll have to decline. Work is mostly hectic, only recently I get spare time to do some research. At home, **** Playstation is taking up all my spare time.

I'll just barge in in your discussions, pretends to be pro, and offer my few cents.

huh....that's a first I've ever seen on a forum...."You have posted a message with more emoticons that this board allows. Please reduce the number of emoticons you've added to the message". Geezus, and I thought the restrictions I integrate into the operating systems I developed for work were restrictive....

Edited October 24, 2006 by iTwins

[tain]

By the way I think to put all SATA/RAID drivers I found into a package and upload it to Rapidshare.de.

I would be interested in downloading that. I'll also host it for you if you like.

[Oleg_II]

iTwins

OK! Thanks anyway

TAiN

I have a few packages now but don't have enough time to merge them and separate again according to the manufactors.

All information for STORAGE.INI I've got from the package of scankurban (I've got it manually from included INF files). I think most of drivers from his package are universal (there were sections for both W2k and XP in INF files with the same source files).

But there is still a possibility that some driver binaries could be different for different OS as iTwins said.

So this should take some time, I guess.

Edited October 24, 2006 by Oleg_II

[dziubek]

I have mainboards: ASUS P4V800D-X(VIA 8237R+<?>) & ASUS A7N8 deluxe(nforce2)+ hdd serial ATA.I will execute tests in the weekend

cheers

dziubek

[iTwins]

Well, I'm offering my first cent.

Link to the RAID Slipstreamer v2.0's Mass Storage Drivers

Inside "Mass Storage Drivers for Wintel.rar" are Windows drivers that are categorized by the following folders:

2K_2K3

2000

2003

XP

COMMON

XP_2K

I think it's quite self-explanatory - platform specific drivers. For example. "2K_2K3" means this driver only works on Windows 2000 and Windows 2003. However, don't come crying to me if it works on XP as well for example. I simply took the vendor's words. They say it doesn't support XP and I take their words for it. If however I ignore this warning and the RAID array died, we cannot whine at the manufacturer!

Anyways, inside each folder are the compressed SYS files. These are to be copied to the I386 share and specified in both TXTSETUP.SIF and DOSNET.INF

Last but not least, inside each folder is a sub folder called FULL. These are the complete vendor supplied drivers that I tell the RAID Slipstreamer to copy to the "OEMPnPDriversPath" string specified in the Answer File. Note that I have modified some of the OEMSETUP.INF (I renamed most too to avoid any duplicate filenames) to point directly to the root directory rather than their original paths, usually categorized by platform type.

For most people, you have no use for these drivers. For big corporations that have too much money to spend and can afford to buy US$4,000 controller cards AND YOU HAVE TO SUPPORT THEM, this is worth the trouble.

OLEG:

Feel free to add them to your set of drivers.

Cheers,

Edited October 25, 2006 by iTwins

[Oleg_II]

iTwins

Thank you very much!

I don't have much time for testing now but I'm going to download the package and have a look into it.

PS Are you from Macao (Aomen)?

[iTwins]

iTwins

Thank you very much!

I don't have much time for testing now but I'm going to download the package and have a look into it.

You're welcome. Glad to lend a hand

PS Are you from Macao (Aomen)?

No, Hong Kong, right next door....no casinos over here, just plenty of smog, courtesy of mainland China.

Edited October 25, 2006 by iTwins

[Oleg_II]

How could I confuse HK emblem!

So we are neighbours

just plenty of smog, courtesy of mainland China

It's even more here in GZ

dziubek

I have mainboards: ASUS P4V800D-X(VIA 8237R+<?>) & ASUS A7N8 deluxe(nforce2)+ hdd serial ATA.I will execute tests in the weekend

Nearly missed your posting. Let us know what's going on. Thanks for helping and good luck!

PS dziubek I'll try to check INF files for your motherboards (if needed information is included into STORAGE.INI).

Edited October 25, 2006 by Oleg_II

[iTwins]

How could I confuse HK emblem!

So we are neighbours

It's even more here in GZ

You don't sound like a local. Quite a long way from home, sailor. What brought you to GZ? Expat?

[Oleg_II]

Expat?

Yep, something like this B)

[iTwins]

Expat?

Yep, something like this B)

Nice. 10 years expat and you can retire!

Now I know why you're helping out with this HFSLIP thingy...hehe...nothing else better to do in GZ! just teasing... Seriously, yes, its very challenging and I enjoy doing this kind of tinkering / tweaking Windows stuff too...only when I was not hooked on the da-mn Playstation. I would've enjoy it more if it wasn't the wife kicking my butt on the game!

Edited October 25, 2006 by iTwins

[tain]

I don't see a way to test this STORAGE method in VMWare. I tried, but the BusLogic driver is already in Win2K and there is no LSI Logic driver for Win2K. VMWare tells you as much, and those are the only two virtual devices that would work for this.

Also, there is an error in storage.ini on line 6820. This error causes setup to fail.

PCI\VEN_1039&DEV_0182 "SiSRaid2", "SiS 182 RAID Controller"

should be:

PCI\VEN_1039&DEV_0182 = "SiSRaid2", "SiS 182 RAID Controller"

Edited October 27, 2006 by TAiN

[iTwins]

Tain:

Hmmm, I don't know how you can test the SiS drivers EVEN if you have the LSI Logic drivers for VMWare. Anyways, help yourself. Try adding it manually:

DOSNET.INF:

[FloppyDisk.2]
d1,vmscsi.sys

[Files]
d1,vmscsi.sys

TXTSETUP.SIF:

[SourceDisksFiles]
vmscsi.sys = 1,,,,,,3_,4,1

[HardwareIdsDatabase]
PCI\VEN_104B&DEV_1040 = "vmscsi"

[SCSI.Load]
vmscsi = vmscsi.sys,4

[SCSI]
vmscsi = "VMware SCSI Controller"

Attached are the LSI Logic 1020/1030 Ultra320 SCSI drivers for VMware Workstation v5.5.x. The attached VMware drivers work on all platforms.

VMSCSI.rar

Edited October 27, 2006 by iTwins

[tain]

Hmmm, I don't know how you can test the SiS drivers EVEN if you have the LSI Logic drivers for VMWare.

Sorry. Those are unrelated topics and my post should have been more clear. That error causes text-mode setup to fail. I fixed the entry and was able to continue, but wanted to let Oleg know so that the package could be updated.

Where did you get this other driver?