HD driver issues...Help =)
 

I am trying to a make slipstream XP CD but I can't find the SATA drivers for my HD. I have a Western Digital WD1200JD 120gb HD. The only drivers I found on WD site is for a RAID controller. If I remember correctly when I first built the machine I had to get the SATA drivers from ASUS. I have an ASUS P4S800D Mobo, but I can't find any SATA drivers either. The only site that I have found online that seemed to have them was a porn site which I don't really trust.

Anyone have any idea where I can find the drivers?

Any help is appreciated.

I didn't know hard drives had drivers.

i found Serial ATA drivers on the western digital site... or am i wrong.

I saw that too, but that is for a SATA PCI Card that you insert into your Mobo.

http://eshop.macsales.com/Customized...eader/siig.jpg

My SATA is built directly into the mobo.

Appreciate you looking though :)

you would need your motherboard's drivers, or more specifically, your chipset drivers for SATA/RAID.

Check out http://usa.asus.com

or http://www.sis.com

I did.

I wasn't able to find anything on either site that had SATA drivers.

I think it uses a silicon image 3112 controller, but cant be sure (google's giving me some mixed results and the asus site doesnt specify it). You can check which model your board uses by going to Control panel > system > hardware > device manager > scsi and raid controllers.

If it is the 3112, you can get the driver from here (Scroll down to "SiI3x12 32-bit Windows SATARAID Driver"): http://www.siliconimage.com/search/s...x?keyword=3112


If it's a different silicon image chipset, just put the model name in the search box on the silicon image site and you should be able to find a driver for it.

Thanks atmo!

The mobo chipset is SiS 655FX if that helps at all. I checked device manager and it has SiS 180 RAID Controller in use for my HD. I found http://www.jetway.com*****evisn/downl...er/index-2.htm that has the file for download. I'm just hesitant to try it though without knowing for sure it will work. I don't have a floppy drive so I'm integrating the driver file into a XP CD so if it doesn't work, I'm fucked ;).


//edit

If I tired to 'update' to that driver and it didn't work, would it fuck up the HD at all and not boot?

When we first put it together we used SiS drivers, but I don't remeber for sure where we found them. Do you remember if the floppy is still around here? If it is I could check and see exactly what they are.

You said you got it from the Asus website. The site was down when you first tried to go there but was up a few days later. I have 2 floppy disks here which have the drivers on them (I believe)

I found a driver file from SiS so I tried that and it worked but it changed my layout...

Before:
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/4424/desktop6yv.jpg
which is old, but only the background has changed.

After:

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/7339/after2sv.jpg

It wouldnt "fuck it up", but it wont allow you to proceed with the installation if it doesnt have a working driver for the SATA controller.

Nevermind on the layout thing. I just need to rehack a dll file which will allow me to run the custom theme I was using. So it seems I found a working driver.


Thanks for the help everyone :)