RE: windows 64bit and serial ATA problem

From: The Fuzzy Logician - Ivory-towers.net (Ivory-towers.net_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/11/04

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    Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 01:43:01 -0800

    First of all welcome to the world of beta :) This is where open source DEV
    really shines through any window... And the sun is bright in Redmond on this
    one folks. This isn't a MS or Gate's problem ( though I wish they included
    more RAID drivers in tht package)

    ( The Reason for the so called corrupted file problem... which isn't a
    problem at all - just a misunderstanding of disk formats and expectations) MS
    and DR Dos or," Caldera", and its disk maker/formatter don't play well (
    I've noticed ) I have had the same problems, but that odd number when making
    the disk reminded me of something. I grew up in the command prompt age and
    people call geeks like me DOS Jedis since we can still do things faster at
    the command prompt than in a gui.

    Back in the olde days 5 1/4" floppies only were formatted on one side....
    360K 180K and the like WOW massive storage hu ?.. You happen to recall the
    number of tracks that the disk utility showed ?? 160 if I recall right ? Now
    a number like that is an odd ball but the drive will format it... but newer
    windows gripes about reading it. Why ? it is expecting 1.44mb or maybe even
    720K formatted disk in drive, but no it's odd ball so chuck the disk
    formatter/maker it will be easier. You have 2 options now.

    1.
    Format the disk via windows @ 1.44MB and manually copy the driver
    files/folders and the setup*.oem ( text insataller file for MS win setups) OR

    2.
    Format a disk @ a standard 1.44MB floppy and go to
    http://www.short-media.com/download.php
    ***** Merry CHRISTMAS 2K4... ALL 64bits of it *****
    Some drivers are timed out so set the clock back before sept 21st 2004
    (Creative labs is STILL working backwards that way :)

    But take note that will make windows update gripe about dates and demand you
    change it to proper date to update.

    I'm running XP64b and can't get it to update at all even after date change
    back so I'm here looking in all the posts :(

    NFO for those who are wondering:
    I'm running ASUS SK8V (Athalon64 FX )
    3c940 NIC Driver v6.10 (XP64) 26 February 2004 : 23:04
    VIA Hyperion Pro 64 4.51 Beta Drivers 23 October 2004 : 02:50 ( SATA RAID
    drivers)
    Creative 64-Bit Audio Preview Driver 24/05/04 (XP64) 08 June 2004 : 03:56

    >From nVidia.com
    nVidias 66.93 64bit for Gforce for my BFG 6800GT OC ( sluggish on the redraws)

    The Promise SATA RAID XP64bit drivers can be found at Promise.com
    http://www.promise.com/support/file/driver/2_FastTrak_S150_TX_Windows_98_Me.zip

    The "ASUS SK8V" has the chipset but it might apply to SK8 as well.
    IF you can't find it via the link text above, search downloads there for
    catagory:
    FastTrak S150 TX, ALL, Windows on their download page then pull the one that
    says: "FastTrak S150 TX AMD64 Drivers For Windows [BETA] "

    Merry Xmas to all , and I expect Christmas cards from you all :P

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