Re: Question about F6 when installing SBS
- From: "Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]" <kweilbacMVP@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:37:48 -0400
Thanks for the clarification. Properly noted and filed away for the next
person who encounters this issue!
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Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
"The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"
"Gregg Hill" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Kevin,
No, the original problem was with ShadowProtect not letting me load two
adapter drivers after hitting F6. I found the cause today while trying to
build a Bart PE disk. Its error log led me to the incorrectly-formatted
txtsetup.oem file for the Siig SATA SC-SA0012-S1 adapter.
After correcting Siig's txtsetup.oem file, it worked for both Bart PE and
ShadowProtect.
Gregg Hill
"Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]" <kweilbacMVP@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Oh, the problem was with building a Bart PE CD. Glad to hear you got it
working fine!
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Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
"The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"
"Gregg Hill" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Kevin,
I found the problem. While I was trying to build a BartPE bootable CD,
it kept failing with errors related to the drivers that I had previously
tried to install when booting ShadowProtect. Looking at the errors, I
figured out that the txtsetup.oem file had errors in the first lines.
It was:
[Disks]
d1 = "INITIO INIC1620 S-ATA Adapter for Windows
NT4.0",winnt\inic1620.sys,winnt
d2 = "INITIO INIC1620 S-ATA Adapter for Windows
2000",win2000\inic1620.sys,win2000
d3 = "INITIO INIC1620 S-ATA Adapter for Windows
XP/2003",winxp\inic1620.sys,winxp
When it should have been:
[Disks]
d1 = "INITIO INIC1620 S-ATA Adapter for Windows
NT4.0",\winnt\inic1620.sys,\winnt
d2 = "INITIO INIC1620 S-ATA Adapter for Windows
2000",\win2000\inic1620.sys,\win2000
d3 = "INITIO INIC1620 S-ATA Adapter for Windows
XP/2003",\winxp\inic1620.sys,\winxp
The backslashes were missing from the file paths at the end of those
three lines. I added the backslashes and it worked fine to build the
BartPE CD and it worked to load two different adapter drivers when
booting ShadowProtect.
Gee, that was fun! So much for depending upon the manufacturer to build
the file correctly!
Gregg Hill
"Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]" <kweilbacMVP@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Gregg, the F6 option is not an SBS "thing" but a Windows "thing".
Yes, when you press F6 from Windows, you get an ability to install more
than one diskette. I have used ShadowProtect to also do the F6 thing,
but only with a single diskette. Again, I believe that that is a
Windows thing. If it is not letting you add a second driver diskette,
then contact Storagecraft tech support. They are super responsive.
But let me ask you this, have you tried booting up Shadowprotect
without doing the F6? I have a server with SCSI Raid that I was
expecting to do an F6, but I didn't press it in time, and lo and
behold, it came up and saw my drives anyway.
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Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
"The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"
"Gregg Hill" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello!
I have a generic question regarding the "Hit F6 to install additional
adapter drivers" that one sees when first installing Windows. I am
using an application from StorageCraft called ShadowProtect which
starts up off of a bootable CD and starts a GUI interface (it looks
like a normal Windows boot when it first starts). When it first boots,
it says to hit F6 to load additional drivers. I have two adapters, a
Siig SATA adapter, and an Adaptec 1420SA SATA RAID controller. I can
only load the drivers for one or the other of these adapters using F6,
but not both. Once I load one (either one), if I hit "S" again, it
keeps trying to load the one that is already loaded and does not give
the chance to load another driver.
Is this the same behavior I would see when actually loading SBS, or
does SBS let you use F6 to load more than one set of drivers for
multiple adapters?
I am wondering if this behavior is limited to the ShadowProtect
application or if it is a Windows thing.
Any help is appreciated!
Gregg Hill
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