Install XP for the first time using a Rosewill RC200 Raid Adapter

[loninappleton]

I have had good success using a Rosewill RC200 IDE adapter to work around bad channels on older boards. I've installed the Rosewill to both Windows 98 and Windows 2000 Pro.

However the install routine which is similar to Windows 2000 Pro

on XP says it cannot install the php680r.sys file no matter what

I do.

The driver for the Rosewill is provided by Silicon Image.

A floppy is provided that says it works with just about everything.

That floppy would not install the driver.

I looked for updates to the pnp680r.sys which is indeed a raid

contrller driver. Silicon Image had an updated driver to include

Vista.

O put that stuff on a cdrom hoping the XP install routine could pick it up when the prompt asks to 'retry.'

All these things have failed.

Has anyone here got any suggestions on how to run XP install to pick up the necessary drivers to run a Raid card? The floppy does not seem big enough to hold some of these newer driver modifications. But if there is an executable of some sort that

fits on a floppy, this is what the install asks for.

Would a substitute driver package from something like Promise

make this process go?

I'm stumped.

The exact system error is:

XP setup cannot copy the file pnp680r.sys

and retry doesn't work

[Whipon]

The only solution is to integrate the drivers to the XP cd through nLite.

nLite is very easy to use, you'll manage to do it in a few minutes. Or just read the tutorials in the nLite web.

I don't know why the F6 method doesn't work with this device. Fortunatellly integrating the driver to the XP cd maked it.

Hope this helps to someone with the same problem as me. There's no info about this issue in the web.

C U .

Whipon.