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

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

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 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

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

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 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

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 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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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.