Which Raid Drivers for Longhorn install

[Nyquest007]

I've tried copying the files from the WinXp 64 nforce driver set for the raid controller, but they're too big for a floppy. I can't figure out which ones are needed. I tried a few combinations of files I think could be them and longhorn reads and uses them but them after loading both drivers gives an error saying it can't find nvidia raid stack. I have XP Pro loaded on the raid stack and want to put Longhorn on a seperate drive. I've tried installing it on another drive but can't get it to boot from the drive it's loaded on. Even changing boot devices in bios, yields no joy. I figure longhorn needs to read the raid stack to modifiy the boot.ini to see that longhorn is also an option for boot. Any help?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Doesn't Microsoft has some kind of support group for beta testers?

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Doesn't Microsoft has some kind of support group for beta testers?

Yes.

 

[Nyquest007]

Since when has microsoft help been as fast as these forums? I was kinda looking for a solution today ha ha. I pretty sure the drivers are the same as with the XP 64 bit install, but they will not fit on one floppy. How did you guys running XP 64 get your soft raid stacks up?

 

[n0cmonkey]

No offence to these forums, but they're really only good for things that are common and accessible to plenty of people. I don't have numbers, but I bet only a few of the few of the 100k users that visit the OS forum have access to longhorn at this point.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Nyquest007
Since when has microsoft help been as fast as these forums? I was kinda looking for a solution today ha ha. I pretty sure the drivers are the same as with the XP 64 bit install, but they will not fit on one floppy. How did you guys running XP 64 get your soft raid stacks up?

Why in the world would you think that 64bit drivers would be what you need to boot Longhorn (I strongly suspect you have a 32bit build). Use the normal XP drivers, but really you should be posting on the beta forums. If you don't have access to the beta forums, you shouldn't be running it anyhow and won't get help here.

Bill

 

[Nyquest007]

This is a beta version or the 64 bit longhorn. I have 32 bit drivers and naturally do not work, I get the "32 bit drivers will not work" error. Well, thanks for narrowing down my search field. Happy new year.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Nyquest007
This is a beta version or the 64 bit longhorn. I have 32 bit drivers and naturally do not work, I get the "32 bit drivers will not work" error. Well, thanks for narrowing down my search field. Happy new year.

Ok, bad guess on my part, most users have the 32 bit version. Try splitting the files onto two floppies (with the inf on the first). I think the installer will error ont he missing file (and you can then change disks and retry). Been a while since I've needed to deal with this so a bit rust....

Can you drop the files onto a usb key (will your mb allow the usb key to be seen as a floppy)? Thats the other way I've seen this resolved.

Bill

 

[Nyquest007]

i will try both of those. The mobo does allow boot from usb so I'll try it . I'm not that the longhorn installer will see it as a floppy though. I'll try the spitting the files also. Thanks again.