I am attempting to install Vista onto a second partition of my main harddrive.

During the install process (running through XP), I am told that I need to
load drivers for my harddrive or it will not work. I downloaded the newest
SATA drivers for my harddrive (SI3112 v.1.0.56.1), and have put them in the
root directory of a USB flashdrive that I have. Now, when I try to click the
load drivers button, the installation says:

"No device drivers were found. Make sure that the installation media
contains the correct drivers, and then click Retry."

I'm fairly sure my drivers should work, but just to double check, here are
the files that I am placing on the flashdrive:

si3112r.cat
Si3112r.inf
Si3112r.sys
SiiSupp.vxd
SilSupp.cpl
SiWinAcc.sys
TxtSetup.oem
readme.txt

Has anyone had any similar problems? Is it maybe my stupidity coming into
play? Have I missed something important?

Are those controller drivers? Drives don't require drivers unless your
running a RAID array I think.. but I could be wrong.

I've read elsewhere in here that Sil do not have a Vista driver as of yet...

"Ivo" wrote:
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Hippster,

The SATA / RAID controller requires drivers, regardless of whether the
drives are in a RAID configuration. The drives themselves rarely - if ever -
require additional drivers.

Ivo,

I'm unsure as to what Windows Vista setup requires as far as SATA/RAID
drivers are concerned. Drivers that work after installing Vista may not work
during setup.

On another note, I've had trouble on a few systems when trying to "upgrade"
from Windows XP. The only luck I've had is with a clean install.


"Hippster" wrote:
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I have the same SATA/Raid Controller and I had to delete the txtsetup.oem
file and supply the onboard IDE drivers in order to get setup to complete.
Vista beta 2 5384 is running on partition 2 (D:) and XP Pro is running on
partition 1 (C:) of the si 3112 controller in a Raid 0 built with 2 200 GB
Maxtor SATA Drives. I also got it to install on the first ide drive Booting
from the DVD and loading the IDE Drivers, the install would fail untill I
loaded the ide drivers. Im not sure why but the IDE Drivers are the key here.
Hope this helps. Bob

"Devin Canterberry" wrote:
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Ivo wrote:
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> Si3112r.inf
> Si3112r.sys
> SiiSupp.vxd
> SilSupp.cpl
> SiWinAcc.sys
> TxtSetup.oem
> readme.txt
>
> Has anyone had any similar problems? Is it maybe my stupidity coming into
> play? Have I missed something important?

You can install the driver by pressing Shift-F10 when you're in the
select HD windows, it will open a "DOS" box, go on your USB key, and
type: drvload Si3112r.inf
It will load your SATA driver, even if Windows was not able to see it
before. Then click the Refresh button and you can proceed with the rest
on the setup.

"Christophe Roy" <roy.christophe> wrote in message
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> Ivo wrote:

> You can install the driver by pressing Shift-F10 when you're in the select
> HD windows, it will open a "DOS" box, go on your USB key, and type:
> drvload Si3112r.inf
> It will load your SATA driver, even if Windows was not able to see it
> before. Then click the Refresh button and you can proceed with the rest on
> the setup.
>
That worked fine on the Gigabyte GA7NNXP board tonight, thank you. One
added factor for Gigabyte, there are two drivers on the website 1.0.0.52 and
1.0.0.50 Naturally I chose 52 but what is not obvious is that 52 is the
non raid driver, si3112.inf, and version 50 contains si3112r.inf
You do need to click refresh as indicated. Thanks again Christophe

P

I have the same Silicon Image raid controller on a Gigabyte SINXP1394 mobo.
Keep in mind that for one HD on sata you need the ,,base'' driver. When you
connect more then one HD then you need the 3112r driver regardless of the
fact that you don't have a raid of any kind installed.
Kind regards,
Tony Thijs
Oriolus

"Paul" <junkstfIHATESPAM> wrote in message
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