Promise Raid Drivers

I have a MSI K7N2-Delta ILSR mother board that I have had a couple years
now. It has a Promise Raid Chip on it and takes Promise drivers 376/378
drivers. That is the floppy I have that came with mobo.

I am not using RAID. I have a Serial hard drive in it.

Problem is Vista can't find anything on it. This board has a nForce2 chipset
on it. I tried the Promise site, the Nvidia site and the MSI site and can't
seem to find any drivers and especially anything for Vista.

Has anyone got this board with a Serial drive in it to install Vista?

If so, what and where did you get the drivers for it at?

Thanks,
Ed.

I am two drives on a motherboard with a Promise IDE controller, and the
Windows XP driver installed and works like a charm. I can see all six of my
HDDs.

Bobby

"Ed." <esmithoh(at)zoominternet.net> wrote in message
news:efD%...
>I have a MSI K7N2-Delta ILSR mother board that I have had a couple years
>now. It has a Promise Raid Chip on it and takes Promise drivers 376/378
>drivers. That is the floppy I have that came with mobo.
>
> I am not using RAID. I have a Serial hard drive in it.
>
> Problem is Vista can't find anything on it. This board has a nForce2
> chipset on it. I tried the Promise site, the Nvidia site and the MSI site
> and can't seem to find any drivers and especially anything for Vista.
>
> Has anyone got this board with a Serial drive in it to install Vista?
>
> If so, what and where did you get the drivers for it at?
>
> Thanks,
> Ed.
>

Yes, I got an IDE onboard too and it worked fine. I did install Vista on it
for now. It is the Serial (SATA) drives that need the drivers. Since those
are larger drives in my case and I want them in a Mirror RAID, I need to get
the Promise drivers loaded.

"NoNoBadDog!" <> wrote in message
news:e$...
>I am two drives on a motherboard with a Promise IDE controller, and the
>Windows XP driver installed and works like a charm. I can see all six of
>my HDDs.
>
> Bobby
>
> "Ed." <esmithoh(at)zoominternet.net> wrote in message
> news:efD%...
>>I have a MSI K7N2-Delta ILSR mother board that I have had a couple years
>>now. It has a Promise Raid Chip on it and takes Promise drivers 376/378
>>drivers. That is the floppy I have that came with mobo.
>>
>> I am not using RAID. I have a Serial hard drive in it.
>>
>> Problem is Vista can't find anything on it. This board has a nForce2
>> chipset on it. I tried the Promise site, the Nvidia site and the MSI site
>> and can't seem to find any drivers and especially anything for Vista.
>>
>> Has anyone got this board with a Serial drive in it to install Vista?
>>
>> If so, what and where did you get the drivers for it at?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ed.
>>
>

Same here, 400 GB Seagate SATA drive on onboard Promise378 Controller...
Vista can not find info about Promise/hard drive. Vista also does not
recognize Promise378 .inf file.
Bunch of hardware that does not work correctly (Audigy 2ZS, Orbit Webcam),
bunch of "unknown device[s]..." no MS fault necessarily.
Otherwise, Vista w/ Aero looks Appleish to me... boring, idiotic (GUI-ed for
the point-and-click crowd, MS has a point here , and unaesthetical - shiny
black taskbar like the sides of an expensive coffin.
Michael

"Ed." <esmithoh(at)zoominternet.net> wrote in message
news:efD%...
>I have a MSI K7N2-Delta ILSR mother board that I have had a couple years
>now. It has a Promise Raid Chip on it and takes Promise drivers 376/378
>drivers. That is the floppy I have that came with mobo.
>
> I am not using RAID. I have a Serial hard drive in it.
>
> Problem is Vista can't find anything on it. This board has a nForce2
> chipset on it. I tried the Promise site, the Nvidia site and the MSI site
> and can't seem to find any drivers and especially anything for Vista.
>
> Has anyone got this board with a Serial drive in it to install Vista?
>
> If so, what and where did you get the drivers for it at?
>
> Thanks,
> Ed.
>

OK, I have found a workaround that someone had posted and it worked for me.

Make a new floppy disk. Take the files out of the XP folder and put in the
root of floppy with the others that are there. I deleted the NT and Win2000
folders.

Then when you go to install Vista it will be able to find the drivers and
will listed as XP Fast Track 376/378.

"Michael" <> wrote in message
news:%232Km%...
> Same here, 400 GB Seagate SATA drive on onboard Promise378 Controller...
> Vista can not find info about Promise/hard drive. Vista also does not
> recognize Promise378 .inf file.
> Bunch of hardware that does not work correctly (Audigy 2ZS, Orbit Webcam),
> bunch of "unknown device[s]..." no MS fault necessarily.
> Otherwise, Vista w/ Aero looks Appleish to me... boring, idiotic (GUI-ed
> for the point-and-click crowd, MS has a point here , and unaesthetical -
> shiny black taskbar like the sides of an expensive coffin.
> Michael
>
> "Ed." <esmithoh(at)zoominternet.net> wrote in message
> news:efD%...
>>I have a MSI K7N2-Delta ILSR mother board that I have had a couple years
>>now. It has a Promise Raid Chip on it and takes Promise drivers 376/378
>>drivers. That is the floppy I have that came with mobo.
>>
>> I am not using RAID. I have a Serial hard drive in it.
>>
>> Problem is Vista can't find anything on it. This board has a nForce2
>> chipset on it. I tried the Promise site, the Nvidia site and the MSI site
>> and can't seem to find any drivers and especially anything for Vista.
>>
>> Has anyone got this board with a Serial drive in it to install Vista?
>>
>> If so, what and where did you get the drivers for it at?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ed.
>>
>
>

OK, I have found a workaround that someone had posted and it worked for me.

Make a new floppy disk. Take the files out of the XP folder and put in the
root of floppy with the others that are there. I deleted the NT and Win2000
folders.

Then when you go to install Vista it will be able to find the drivers and
will listed as XP Fast Track 376/378.

"Michael" <> wrote in message
news:%232Km%...
> Same here, 400 GB Seagate SATA drive on onboard Promise378 Controller...
> Vista can not find info about Promise/hard drive. Vista also does not
> recognize Promise378 .inf file.
> Bunch of hardware that does not work correctly (Audigy 2ZS, Orbit Webcam),
> bunch of "unknown device[s]..." no MS fault necessarily.
> Otherwise, Vista w/ Aero looks Appleish to me... boring, idiotic (GUI-ed
> for the point-and-click crowd, MS has a point here , and unaesthetical -
> shiny black taskbar like the sides of an expensive coffin.
> Michael
>
> "Ed." <esmithoh(at)zoominternet.net> wrote in message
> news:efD%...
>>I have a MSI K7N2-Delta ILSR mother board that I have had a couple years
>>now. It has a Promise Raid Chip on it and takes Promise drivers 376/378
>>drivers. That is the floppy I have that came with mobo.
>>
>> I am not using RAID. I have a Serial hard drive in it.
>>
>> Problem is Vista can't find anything on it. This board has a nForce2
>> chipset on it. I tried the Promise site, the Nvidia site and the MSI site
>> and can't seem to find any drivers and especially anything for Vista.
>>
>> Has anyone got this board with a Serial drive in it to install Vista?
>>
>> If so, what and where did you get the drivers for it at?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ed.
>>
>
>

Did that, did not load the drivers - as per ulsatastore.inf or such.
Thank you for your help,
Michael

"Eddie" <> wrote in message
news:902B3544-67EE-40DC-AF43-...
> OK, I have found a workaround that someone had posted and it worked for
> me.
>
> Make a new floppy disk. Take the files out of the XP folder and put in the
> root of floppy with the others that are there. I deleted the NT and
> Win2000 folders.
>
> Then when you go to install Vista it will be able to find the drivers and
> will listed as XP Fast Track 376/378.
>
> "Michael" <> wrote in message
> news:%232Km%...
>> Same here, 400 GB Seagate SATA drive on onboard Promise378 Controller...
>> Vista can not find info about Promise/hard drive. Vista also does not
>> recognize Promise378 .inf file.
>> Bunch of hardware that does not work correctly (Audigy 2ZS, Orbit
>> Webcam), bunch of "unknown device[s]..." no MS fault necessarily.
>> Otherwise, Vista w/ Aero looks Appleish to me... boring, idiotic (GUI-ed
>> for the point-and-click crowd, MS has a point here , and
>> unaesthetical - shiny black taskbar like the sides of an expensive
>> coffin.
>> Michael
>>
>> "Ed." <esmithoh(at)zoominternet.net> wrote in message
>> news:efD%...
>>>I have a MSI K7N2-Delta ILSR mother board that I have had a couple years
>>>now. It has a Promise Raid Chip on it and takes Promise drivers 376/378
>>>drivers. That is the floppy I have that came with mobo.
>>>
>>> I am not using RAID. I have a Serial hard drive in it.
>>>
>>> Problem is Vista can't find anything on it. This board has a nForce2
>>> chipset on it. I tried the Promise site, the Nvidia site and the MSI
>>> site and can't seem to find any drivers and especially anything for
>>> Vista.
>>>
>>> Has anyone got this board with a Serial drive in it to install Vista?
>>>
>>> If so, what and where did you get the drivers for it at?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ed.
>>>
>>
>>
>

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.


"Eddie" wrote:

> OK, I have found a workaround that someone had posted and it worked for me.
>
> Make a new floppy disk. Take the files out of the XP folder and put in the
> root of floppy with the others that are there. I deleted the NT and Win2000
> folders.
>
> Then when you go to install Vista it will be able to find the drivers and
> will listed as XP Fast Track 376/378.
>
> "Michael" <> wrote in message
> news:%232Km%...
> > Same here, 400 GB Seagate SATA drive on onboard Promise378 Controller...
> > Vista can not find info about Promise/hard drive. Vista also does not
> > recognize Promise378 .inf file.
> > Bunch of hardware that does not work correctly (Audigy 2ZS, Orbit Webcam),
> > bunch of "unknown device[s]..." no MS fault necessarily.
> > Otherwise, Vista w/ Aero looks Appleish to me... boring, idiotic (GUI-ed
> > for the point-and-click crowd, MS has a point here , and unaesthetical -
> > shiny black taskbar like the sides of an expensive coffin.
> > Michael
> >
> > "Ed." <esmithoh(at)zoominternet.net> wrote in message
> > news:efD%...
> >>I have a MSI K7N2-Delta ILSR mother board that I have had a couple years
> >>now. It has a Promise Raid Chip on it and takes Promise drivers 376/378
> >>drivers. That is the floppy I have that came with mobo.
> >>
> >> I am not using RAID. I have a Serial hard drive in it.
> >>
> >> Problem is Vista can't find anything on it. This board has a nForce2
> >> chipset on it. I tried the Promise site, the Nvidia site and the MSI site
> >> and can't seem to find any drivers and especially anything for Vista.
> >>
> >> Has anyone got this board with a Serial drive in it to install Vista?
> >>
> >> If so, what and where did you get the drivers for it at?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Ed.
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

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.


"Eddie" wrote:

> OK, I have found a workaround that someone had posted and it worked for me.
>
> Make a new floppy disk. Take the files out of the XP folder and put in the
> root of floppy with the others that are there. I deleted the NT and Win2000
> folders.
>
> Then when you go to install Vista it will be able to find the drivers and
> will listed as XP Fast Track 376/378.
>
> "Michael" <> wrote in message
> news:%232Km%...
> > Same here, 400 GB Seagate SATA drive on onboard Promise378 Controller...
> > Vista can not find info about Promise/hard drive. Vista also does not
> > recognize Promise378 .inf file.
> > Bunch of hardware that does not work correctly (Audigy 2ZS, Orbit Webcam),
> > bunch of "unknown device[s]..." no MS fault necessarily.
> > Otherwise, Vista w/ Aero looks Appleish to me... boring, idiotic (GUI-ed
> > for the point-and-click crowd, MS has a point here , and unaesthetical -
> > shiny black taskbar like the sides of an expensive coffin.
> > Michael
> >
> > "Ed." <esmithoh(at)zoominternet.net> wrote in message
> > news:efD%...
> >>I have a MSI K7N2-Delta ILSR mother board that I have had a couple years
> >>now. It has a Promise Raid Chip on it and takes Promise drivers 376/378
> >>drivers. That is the floppy I have that came with mobo.
> >>
> >> I am not using RAID. I have a Serial hard drive in it.
> >>
> >> Problem is Vista can't find anything on it. This board has a nForce2
> >> chipset on it. I tried the Promise site, the Nvidia site and the MSI site
> >> and can't seem to find any drivers and especially anything for Vista.
> >>
> >> Has anyone got this board with a Serial drive in it to install Vista?
> >>
> >> If so, what and where did you get the drivers for it at?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Ed.
> >>
> >
> >
>
>