RAID Hard disk, Promise FastTrak 378, K8V SE Asus-MoBo.

Hectorg:
The latest driver for the Fasttrack 378 is 1.00.039. After
downloading the driver from Asus you have to unzip the download. After the
download is unzipped there will be 1 folder and 3 files in the download.
These have to be copied to a floppy for installation.

 

My MoBo is ASUS K8V SE, has a promise RAID controller, & FASTTRAK 378.
All works fine with Xp 32, now I want Xp 64 bit.:wink:
Latest 64 bit Promise RAID driver revision ASUS web-support download is
1.00.0.39, but can't get it to work.
- During install, I hit F6, and it loads the driver, reboots,
finished install, then, nada. Continuous reboots.
- I tried small IDE HDD, then updating driver afterwards within Xp64,
does not work either. Does not load driver, I'm without RAID.
- I tried BIOS switching from RAID to IDE and back.Promise website mentions no support for MB with embedded controller & to
go to mfg of Mobo, ASUS.

Any suggestions?:roll:
Do we have working RAID HDD drivers for Promise 378 and VISTA64bit?
plz, help...:?

 

If you are having RAID and IDE both, make sure that your RAID is set as the
first drive - and note that your BIOS may have the RAID listed in the IDE
section too, make it the first drive and then set the boot-order.

If this does not work, try disabling everything that you don't need for the
machine to boot. When the machine is running then it should be alright to
enable the stuff that you are going to need, leave everything else disbaled.

And to expand on Denis's excellent point on unzipping the file, if that's
your problem - make sure that you copy the part of the directory structure
such that the file TXTSETUP.OEM lands in the root of the floppy!

Tony. . .

mentions no support for MB with embedded controller & to

 

I posted this version of the driver, but not on how to use it, and
_*I_did_all_of_that,_if_you_read_carefully*_. That is the exact version
I am using from the Asus website, plus I tried other BIOS versions, and
beta's, just in case..

I'll explain again:
The install with F6 gets the driver, formats, copies, install continues
fine afterwards, reboots and continues install, asks once on the logo
testing to continue, then finishes install. After this reboot, it never
comes back, and continues rebooting...:roll:

I do truly appreciate your effort and time spent for posting a reply,
and encourage you to continue.

 

I replied to each of your paragraphs..

 

Hectorg:
The Promise 378 driver 1.00.1.39 was the only driver that
Promise has released for x64. It covered the Fasttrack 378, S150TX series
and TX4000 chipsets. During the x64 beta the original driver worked on the
early versions but not the later versions and the updated driver became
version 1.00.1.39. After testing the driver from Asus I found that it won't
install as you indicated. Go to http://www.promise.com/, download the driver
for the FastTrac S150 TX4. Unzip the download, ignore the bios file, open
the "fts150tx_windrv_amd64_v1.00.1.39_with updated INF.zip" file, copy
contents to a floppy. This driver works on my SK8N mother board with the
Promise 378 controller. The version on the Asus site is the early version
without the updated .INF file. Sorry about the delay in posting the proper
drivers but I'm not running raid on that system anymore and had to find the
proper driver file.