Vista - Promise Fast Track 376/378 Raid Driver Problem installing Vista B2

I have a Promise Fast Track 376/378 Sata Raid controller built into my
NForce2 Mobo. I have 2 raptor 10,000rpm running Raid 0 and the driver disk
that came with the mobo don't work with the Vista Beta2 X86 32bit
installation. I have looked all over the net and found many people with the
same problem but no solution. Can anyone in here help. I have tried the
Promise website and MSI the maker of my MOBO and nothing. The Model of the
raid controller is PDC20376. Thanks.

> I have a Promise Fast Track 376/378 Sata Raid controller built into my
> NForce2 Mobo. I have 2 raptor 10,000rpm running Raid 0 and the driver disk
> that came with the mobo don't work with the Vista Beta2 X86 32bit
> installation. I have looked all over the net and found many people with the
> same problem but no solution. Can anyone in here help. I have tried the
> Promise website and MSI the maker of my MOBO and nothing. The Model of the
> raid controller is PDC20376. Thanks.

Try using the win2003 drivers. MSI should have these drivers. When in
the installation you get the window where you have to select the disk
where to install windows, if your drivers don't show up, press
Shift-F10, it will open a command-line box. Go to where you have your
2003 drivers for your controler, and type:
drvload UlSata.inf
(if your .inf file is named like mine, the important is that it's a
..inf file)
When it says drivers has been loaded, close the DOS box, and click the
refresh button on the "select hard drive window". They now should show
up.

Christophe

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Christophe

Vista beta 2 build 5384.4

I had the same problem and have your same Promise Fast Track 376/378 on a
MSI nForce2 mother board.

Someone had told me a way to get it working and it worked.

Make a new floppy disk.
Copy the files from the old to the new.
With one exception -
Take the files out of the XP folder.

There are other folders which where NT and Win2000 in addition to the XP
folder. I just used the XP folder.
It worked for me. I guess Vista just don't look into the folders. XP must
have cause the floppy always worked for me in XP.

Good Luck

"boomboom" <boomboom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A579ED0A-D047-48CF-A10A-5346743B5C8C@microsoft.com...
>I have a Promise Fast Track 376/378 Sata Raid controller built into my
> NForce2 Mobo. I have 2 raptor 10,000rpm running Raid 0 and the driver disk
> that came with the mobo don't work with the Vista Beta2 X86 32bit
> installation. I have looked all over the net and found many people with
> the
> same problem but no solution. Can anyone in here help. I have tried the
> Promise website and MSI the maker of my MOBO and nothing. The Model of the
> raid controller is PDC20376. Thanks.

It worked for me also. MSI 865pe neo2. Put the floppy in, open it, open the
xp driver folder, select all, copy and paste it to your cd drive and away you
go.
Thanks

"Ed." wrote:

> I had the same problem and have your same Promise Fast Track 376/378 on a
> MSI nForce2 mother board.
>
> Someone had told me a way to get it working and it worked.
>
> Make a new floppy disk.
> Copy the files from the old to the new.
> With one exception -
> Take the files out of the XP folder.
>
> There are other folders which where NT and Win2000 in addition to the XP
> folder. I just used the XP folder.
> It worked for me. I guess Vista just don't look into the folders. XP must
> have cause the floppy always worked for me in XP.
>
> Good Luck
>
> "boomboom" <boomboom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A579ED0A-D047-48CF-A10A-5346743B5C8C@microsoft.com...
> >I have a Promise Fast Track 376/378 Sata Raid controller built into my
> > NForce2 Mobo. I have 2 raptor 10,000rpm running Raid 0 and the driver disk
> > that came with the mobo don't work with the Vista Beta2 X86 32bit
> > installation. I have looked all over the net and found many people with
> > the
> > same problem but no solution. Can anyone in here help. I have tried the
> > Promise website and MSI the maker of my MOBO and nothing. The Model of the
> > raid controller is PDC20376. Thanks.
>
>
>