3rd party raid drivers in BDD 2007

[tward]

Hi,

 

I'm trying to configure BDD 2007 to do a LTI and have an adaptec raid card installed. I've added drivers for SATA drives as well as the RAID drivers to my $OEM$\TEXTMODE\ folder and modified the txtsetup.oem file in that folder to contain information for all the drivers. When I copy this directory to a floppy disk and run windows installation manually, I can manually load the drivers and windows PE will find my Raid array. However, when BDD tries to run Diskpart at the start of the LTI process, it does not have the raid array in it's list if disks. If I change my Diskpart.txt file to select a SATA disk that's not part of the raid array the deployment is successful, however I'd like to install the OS on the raid array. Any thoughts? I'll eventually need to include these files in my sysprep.inf as well so I can capture them in my image, but for now I'd be happy with my raid array being available to create a base WIM with. Below are is the relevant section of my unattended.txt file and my txtsetup.oem file. Any help you be much appreciated.

 

Unattended.txt

 

[MassStorageDrivers]

; Used when custom disk drivers must be specified

; Enter the description name =Retail or OEM

"Intel® ICH9 SATA AHCI Controller (Desktop/Server/Workstation)" = OEM

"Intel® 82801HEM SATA RAID Controller (Mobile ICH8M-E)" = OEM

"Intel® 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH8M-E/M)" = OEM

"Intel® ICH8R/ICH9R SATA RAID Controller (Desktop/Server/Workstation)" = OEM

"Intel® 82801HR/HH/HO SATA AHCI Controller (Desktop/Server/Workstation)" = OEM

"Intel® 631xESB/632xESB SATA RAID Controller (Server/Workstation ESB2)" = OEM

"Intel® 631xESB/632xESB SATA AHCI Controller (Server/Workstation ESB2)" = OEM

"Intel® 82801GHM SATA RAID Controller (Mobile ICH7MDH)" = OEM

"Intel® 82801GR/GH SATA RAID Controller (Desktop ICH7R/DH)" = OEM

"Intel® 82801GR/GH SATA AHCI Controller (Desktop ICH7R/DH)" = OEM

"Intel® 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH7M/DH)" = OEM

"Intel® 82801FBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH6M)" = OEM

"Adaptec SAS/SATA-II RAID Windows 2000/XP Device Driver" = OEM

"Adaptec RAID Windows 2000/XP Device Driver" = OEM

 

 

 

[OEMBootFiles]

; This section is used to specify custom HALs, and also maps to the Mass Storage Device section

TXTSETUP.OEM

iaahci.inf

iastor.inf

Iastor.sys

aac.inf

aac.sys

aacsas.inf

aacsas.sys

adpenc.inf

 

Txtsetup.oem

 

[Disks]

d1 = "Adaptec SAS/SATA-II RAID Windows 2000/XP Device Driver", \raidisk1, \

d2 = "Adaptec RAID Windows 2000/XP Device Driver", \raidisk1, \

d3 = "Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver", iaStor.sys, \

 

[Defaults]

scsi = aacsas

 

[scsi]

aacsas = "Adaptec SAS/SATA-II RAID Windows 2000/XP Device Driver", aacsas

aac = "Adaptec RAID Windows 2000/XP Device Driver", aac

iaAHCI_ICH9R = "Intel® ICH9 SATA AHCI Controller (Desktop/Server/Workstation)"

iaStor_ICH8M = "Intel® 82801HEM SATA RAID Controller (Mobile ICH8M-E)"

iaAHCI_ICH8M = "Intel® 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH8M-E/M)"

iaStor_ICH8R = "Intel® ICH8R/ICH9R SATA RAID Controller (Desktop/Server/Workstation)"

iaAHCI_ICH8R = "Intel® 82801HR/HH/HO SATA AHCI Controller (Desktop/Server/Workstation)"

iaStor_ESB2 = "Intel® 631xESB/632xESB SATA RAID Controller (Server/Workstation ESB2)"

iaAHCI_ESB2 = "Intel® 631xESB/632xESB SATA AHCI Controller (Server/Workstation ESB2)"

iaStor_ICH7MDH = "Intel® 82801GHM SATA RAID Controller (Mobile ICH7MDH)"

iaStor_ICH7DH = "Intel® 82801GR/GH SATA RAID Controller (Desktop ICH7R/DH)"

iaAHCI_ICH7R = "Intel® 82801GR/GH SATA AHCI Controller (Desktop ICH7R/DH)"

iaAHCI_ICH7M = "Intel® 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH7M/DH)"

iaAHCI_ICH6M = "Intel® 82801FBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH6M)"

[anyweb]

hi and welcome

 

what model computer are you attempting to install XP on ?

 

cheers

anyweb

[tward]

Its a Dell Precision T3400

[anyweb]

hi again,

 

please read this post first to get an idea of whether your values above are correct or not, the post references a different precision model, that does not matter, use the logic in the post !

 

when you try the bdd install apart from not seeing your raid array do you get any specific error ?

 

from looking at your provided files i think you may have specified the wrong file name or should be remming stuff out

 

as before read this first to get an idea of how to determine the best way forward

[tward]

Hi,

 

Thanks for the prompt replies. I seem to have everything sorted out now. There was nothing wrong with my unattended.txt and txtsetup.oem files, I just hadn't updated by distribution point and rebuilt my boot CD after adding the extra drivers for the raid card. Stupid me! is it friday yet?

 

Anyway, thanks for the assistance.

 

tward