SCSI and Vista

Smiley Man

Smiley Man

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hi guys

got myself vista business 64bit but i cant get it to see my scsi array :( i have downloaded the right drivers off the adaptec site (card is a 39320) but windows keeps telling me theres no correct drivers :(, ive extracted the drivers i downloaded onto a removable drive and there is a .sys file there (which i presume is the one windows looks for)

i cant get any further into the install because windows cant find my drives, i had no problem with XP once i had put the driver floppy in and used that, i dont have a floppy drive now though but i have the latest vista certified drivers on my removable drive and it still doesnt work! i even read somewhere that vista has the drivers built in

i havent put my product code in yet because the one i got off the MSDN academic alliance thing doesnt work :( could that be why its not working?

any help much appreciated my main pc is just sitting there like a giant paperweight at the moment:(
 
ive just tried that and it still doesnt work :( ive extracted both sets of drivers to one directory and navigated to it during the vista install, but it still tells me there are no drivers there :(

when i navigate to e:\windows\system32\drivers (where the current scsi drivers for the xp install are) all it finds is the .inf file for my usb midi keyboard :confused: :mad:

i'm really glad i didnt buy vista cos i would be so damn annoyed right now :mad: its a completley legit copy off the msdn academic alliance though :)

the installer even tells me what drivers i need when it finds the partition, but it refuses to accept they are in the folder i tell it to look in :(:(:(

:D
 
i'm not doubting you, but run everest on the machine to get the 'exact' model number of the card, just incase :)
 
SCSI/RAID Controller Adaptec ASC-39320 HostRAID driver
SCSI/RAID Controller Adaptec ASC-39320 HostRAID driver
Disk Drive ADAPTEC RAID 0 SCSI Disk Device (33 GB)

thats what it gives me, im not sure why its there twice, i think its cos the card has 2 channels :confused:

i've literally tried all the drivers i can find, even the ones which are certified for vista (the adaptec site even says vista has the drivers built in)

would deleting the old array and making a new one help?

:D
 
does it show you no hard drives to install vista onto?

deleting the old array shouldn't have any effect at all..
 
bledd. said:
does it show you no hard drives to install vista onto?

deleting the old array shouldn't have any effect at all..
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when i select a clean install from the installer in windows it shows the array fine but wont let me use it until i have installed the drivers, but if i boot from the cd i cant see the array at all:(

i really wanted to do a fresh install cos this XP one has been on here for about 2 years now and is starting to get a bit buggy, i honestly cant imagine vista not supporting probably the most common scsi card there is :confused:
 
perhaps need to update the bios of the controller (even though the bios on their site is pretty damn old)
 
bledd. said:
perhaps need to update the bios of the controller (even though the bios on their site is pretty damn old)
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really not too keen on doing that just to get vista to work tbh :(

i read somewhere i need to disable hostraid or something, but this would mean creating a new array:(

edit - my card is an oem so i can update the bios:(
 
oem from who, if it's ripped from a server, like a hp one, you 'might' be able to find a driver from them -especially if they've got their own bios on it

good luck!
 
i bought it off the bay as an oem card

its stupid that it works fine with xp but not vista :confused:

i read somewhere that i need to disable hostraid, so i might try making a new array with it off, but if that doesnt work ive got to re-install xp which would mean i would have wasted hours trying to get crappy vista to work
 
bledd. said:
oem from who, if it's ripped from a server, like a hp one, you 'might' be able to find a driver from them -especially if they've got their own bios on it

good luck!
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whoo that worked, finally :p

took the card out and it was a dell oem, so downloaded the dell drivers and they worked fine

quite liking vista so far, had all the drivers pre-installed bar the sound card :)
 
It's not Dell's problem that someone pulled a card out of one of their machines and sold it seperately.

The same way it's not Microsoft's problem that you tried using the wrong drivers for the card. It's the little bit of annoyance that you have to put up with in exchange for a bargain sometimes.
 
has anyone managed to get an emu404 sound card to work with vista? i cant so far and if no one has it looks like xp will be going back on tonight :(
 
Smiley Man said:
has anyone managed to get an emu404 sound card to work with vista? i cant so far and if no one has it looks like xp will be going back on tonight :(
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Are you talking about an SB Live! card, if so then I've heard rumours that if you point the device to the old XP drivers they load and the card works, you obviously can't use any of the SB additional software but then why would anyone want to use their bloated software anyway. :)
 
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