I don't know what happened to the OP, but I'm really frustrated by the fact that I can't get this to work. I just bought a USB stick and I should receive it tomorrow.

How do I make my USB stick bootable like a floppy disk? Can I just place these files in the USB stick's main directory and then just press "F6" to load them and install Windows XP?

a. iaahci.cat

b. iaahci.inf

c. iastor.cat

d. iastor.inf

e. iastor.sys

f. license.txt

g. readme.txt

h. txtsetup.oem

can anyone host the contents of the exe for me?

There is another way to obtain the files and it will also work in the feature with newer releases of the drivers.

You will need to download the Win32 setup of Intel Matrix Storage driverpackage from Intel.com instead of F6 floppy installer.

After that you can extract the files from the downloaded archive, this can be done by launching the iata.exe file from a prompt or the Windows run with the following parameters:

\iata621_enu.exe" -A -PC:\IATA

This way the files will be extracted to the C:\IATA folder without installing them on your system. the files located in the C:\Extracted\Driver\ folder are the same as the files you will find in the F6 floppy installer.

The command doesn't work for me too.

That command-line doesn't work. Try this:

1) Download the F6Flpy32.zip file from Intel website

2) Extract F6FLPY32.ZIP to a temp directory

3) Extract the F6FLPY32.EXE using WinRAR or WinImage (with WinImage, you can skip Step 4)

4) Finally, extract the contents of TEMP.IMA using WinImage or UltraISO

In case you don't have the tools to do that, I've saved you the trouble. You can download v6.2.1.1002 (1/4/2007) from here: F6FLPY32.ZIP

Edited February 19, 200719 yr by iTwins

That command-line doesn't work. Try this:

1) Download the F6Flpy32.zip file from Intel website

2) Extract F6FLPY32.ZIP to a temp directory

3) Extract the F6FLPY32.EXE using WinRAR or WinImage (with WinImage, you can skip Step 4)

4) Finally, extract the contents of TEMP.IMA using WinImage or UltraISO

In case you don't have the tools to do that, I've saved you the trouble. You can download v6.2.1.1002 (1/4/2007) from here: F6FLPY32.ZIP

Thanks!

Thanks op! Although a little bit of constructive criticism - I'm sure this method works for you but for others, with other Intel chipsets and drivers this may not be the best way. Also, note that this works for RAID setup just as well for the ACHI setup. In my case, I had raid and modified the hardware ids to match the ones in the driver's txtsetup.oem file (I did keep everything else the same). So, with the latest F6 Intel driver, I have the following:

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2822&CC_0104 = "iaStor"

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2821&CC_0106 = "iaStor"

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2682&CC_0104 = "iaStor"

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2681&CC_0106 = "iaStor"

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C3&CC_0104 = "iaStor"

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C6&CC_0104 = "iaStor"

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C1&CC_0106 = "iaStor"

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C5&CC_0106 = "iaStor"

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2652&CC_0104 = "iaStor"

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2652&CC_0106 = "iaStor"

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2653&CC_0106 = "iaStor"

Worked for me, on Asus P5W DH mobo with Intel 975 chipset (ICH7). Might help those, who had errors with the ops suggested setup.

Edited March 13, 200719 yr by zetto

At the time I made this the IATA package was at version 6, now we are at 8.3.

The full list of the current Intel Matrix Storage Technolgy chipsets is:

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2922&CC_0106 = "iaStor"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_282A&CC_0104 = "iaStor"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2829&CC_0106 = "iaStor"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2822&CC_0104 = "iaStor"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2821&CC_0106 = "iaStor"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2682&CC_0104 = "iaStor"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2681&CC_0106 = "iaStor"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C3&CC_0104 = "iaStor"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C6&CC_0104 = "iaStor"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C1&CC_0106 = "iaStor"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C5&CC_0106 = "iaStor"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2653&CC_0106 = "iaStor"

I ended up here through Google extracting .exe intel storage driver. Just thought I would post in case others end up here the same way.

WinRAR didn't work at all and 7-zip extracted, but the files were unrecognizable. By playing with the command line below it did work.

for mine it was IATA89ENU.exe -A -P C:\IATA which extracted perfectly and I tested by slipstreaming the drivers into install. My TOSHIBA MK5055GSX ATA Device Drive was recognized. These are the newest released XP x64 Intel® Matrix Storage Manager ver. 8.9.0.1023 released 7/17/2009

in below case the command line would be iata621_enu.exe -A -P C:\IATA

BTW I extracted on VISTA, but the command line should be the same for other OS I think.

can anyone host the contents of the exe for me?

There is another way to obtain the files and it will also work in the feature with newer releases of the drivers.

You will need to download the Win32 setup of Intel Matrix Storage driverpackage from Intel.com instead of F6 floppy installer.

After that you can extract the files from the downloaded archive, this can be done by launching the iata.exe file from a prompt or the Windows run with the following parameters:

\iata621_enu.exe" -A -PC:\IATA

This way the files will be extracted to the C:\IATA folder without installing them on your system. the files located in the C:\Extracted\Driver\ folder are the same as the files you will find in the F6 floppy installer.

The command doesn't work for me too.