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.

Not sure if this will help, but I also have a Promise 378 STA RAID controller
on my mobo (ASUS K8VSE-Deluxe). Originally the Vista Beta 2 install wouldn't
see my SATA drive (I'm not running a RAID configuration, just a single drive)
but what I did was copy the contents of the WinXP folder of the Promise
driver disk that came w/my mobo onto the root directory of another floppy.
When I inserted that floppy and clicked "Find Driver", the install program
installed the drivers and was able to finally see my drive.

"boomboom" wrote:

> 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.

Thanks that worked, that's so dumb though, why wouldn't it search through the
folders for the driver. Looks like I have to drop a suggestion.

"Lloyd" wrote:

> Not sure if this will help, but I also have a Promise 378 STA RAID controller
> on my mobo (ASUS K8VSE-Deluxe). Originally the Vista Beta 2 install wouldn't
> see my SATA drive (I'm not running a RAID configuration, just a single drive)
> but what I did was copy the contents of the WinXP folder of the Promise
> driver disk that came w/my mobo onto the root directory of another floppy.
> When I inserted that floppy and clicked "Find Driver", the install program
> installed the drivers and was able to finally see my drive.
>
> "boomboom" wrote:
>
> > 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 tried this and it didn’t work for me. It saw the drivers but when I tried
to install it said that it the drivers were missing from the disk. This cant
be though cos I just used the same drivers to install XP.

HEEEELLLPPP PLEASE!

I have a MSI K8T Neo with Promise fast track 376/378 drivers.


"boomboom" wrote:

> Thanks that worked, that's so dumb though, why wouldn't it search through the
> folders for the driver. Looks like I have to drop a suggestion.
>
> "Lloyd" wrote:
>
> > Not sure if this will help, but I also have a Promise 378 STA RAID controller
> > on my mobo (ASUS K8VSE-Deluxe). Originally the Vista Beta 2 install wouldn't
> > see my SATA drive (I'm not running a RAID configuration, just a single drive)
> > but what I did was copy the contents of the WinXP folder of the Promise
> > driver disk that came w/my mobo onto the root directory of another floppy.
> > When I inserted that floppy and clicked "Find Driver", the install program
> > installed the drivers and was able to finally see my drive.
> >
> > "boomboom" wrote:
> >
> > > 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 exactly the same problem on the same hardware. So far there's been no
solution... if it wasn't for the people who seem to have it working, I'd
suspect that there simply is no driver which works with Vista.

It's that kind of head-against-wall frustrating situation which is going to
make Vista customers quite unhappy if it's not fixed. Unfortunately I also
can't figure out exactly who to blame.

Sigh.

"Reb" wrote:

> I tried this and it didn’t work for me. It saw the drivers but when I tried
> to install it said that it the drivers were missing from the disk. This cant
> be though cos I just used the same drivers to install XP.
>
> HEEEELLLPPP PLEASE!
>
> I have a MSI K8T Neo with Promise fast track 376/378 drivers.
>
>
> "boomboom" wrote:
>
> > Thanks that worked, that's so dumb though, why wouldn't it search through the
> > folders for the driver. Looks like I have to drop a suggestion.
> >
> > "Lloyd" wrote:
> >
> > > Not sure if this will help, but I also have a Promise 378 STA RAID controller
> > > on my mobo (ASUS K8VSE-Deluxe). Originally the Vista Beta 2 install wouldn't
> > > see my SATA drive (I'm not running a RAID configuration, just a single drive)
> > > but what I did was copy the contents of the WinXP folder of the Promise
> > > driver disk that came w/my mobo onto the root directory of another floppy.
> > > When I inserted that floppy and clicked "Find Driver", the install program
> > > installed the drivers and was able to finally see my drive.
> > >
> > > "boomboom" wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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 installed Windows Vista with no Issues onto my IDE Raid HDD which is off
the promise fast track 376/378 Raid Controller. The Motherboard i have MSI
K8T Neo.

Since i do not have a floopy i put the promise fast track 376/378 (XP
Drivers) onto a CD and loaded them off it and have had no Issues. It sees
all my SATA and IDE raid drives.
>
"MaW" <MaW@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:96EFC90B-A095-4333-A8C9-684A741711AF@microsoft.com...
>I have exactly the same problem on the same hardware. So far there's been
>no
> solution... if it wasn't for the people who seem to have it working, I'd
> suspect that there simply is no driver which works with Vista.
>
> It's that kind of head-against-wall frustrating situation which is going
> to
> make Vista customers quite unhappy if it's not fixed. Unfortunately I also
> can't figure out exactly who to blame.
>
> Sigh.
>
> "Reb" wrote:
>
>> I tried this and it didn't work for me. It saw the drivers but when I
>> tried
>> to install it said that it the drivers were missing from the disk. This
>> cant
>> be though cos I just used the same drivers to install XP.
>>
>> HEEEELLLPPP PLEASE!
>>
>> I have a MSI K8T Neo with Promise fast track 376/378 drivers.
>>
>>
>> "boomboom" wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks that worked, that's so dumb though, why wouldn't it search
>> > through the
>> > folders for the driver. Looks like I have to drop a suggestion.
>> >
>> > "Lloyd" wrote:
>> >
>> > > Not sure if this will help, but I also have a Promise 378 STA RAID
>> > > controller
>> > > on my mobo (ASUS K8VSE-Deluxe). Originally the Vista Beta 2 install
>> > > wouldn't
>> > > see my SATA drive (I'm not running a RAID configuration, just a
>> > > single drive)
>> > > but what I did was copy the contents of the WinXP folder of the
>> > > Promise
>> > > driver disk that came w/my mobo onto the root directory of another
>> > > floppy.
>> > > When I inserted that floppy and clicked "Find Driver", the install
>> > > program
>> > > installed the drivers and was able to finally see my drive.
>> > >
>> > > "boomboom" wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > 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 SATA and an IDE drive on my Asus A8V Deluxe mobo. I installed
Vista Home Premium retail version on my IDE because of the problems
with Promise raid and kept XP on my SATA. I could not see the SATA
drive in Vista. I don't have the keys to validate the Vista install
but at least I can play with it for 30 days.

Vista is apparently written on the Win 2003 code. There is no XP code
in Vista. I took out my Asus A8V Deluxe MOBO disk and installed the
Win 2003 driver for the Promise Fasttrak 378 Raid (tm) Controller. I
was then able to see my SATA drive.

Maybe if you use the Win 2003 raid drivers when installing Vista to a
computer with an Asus mobo your raid problems will disappear. I hope.

I am going to try doing the same when I get the retail version of Vista
that I ordered.


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