Way to install SCSI boot disk w/o a floppy drive?

[Santilli]

Hi
I'm using an LSI 120320 card, and a 10k 147 GB drive. I can't get the floppy drive to accept a disk.

So, how can I install XP w/o a floppy drive to send the windows installer to, to install the driver for the LSI card???

Anyway to do this?

Thanks
GS

 

[ddrueding]

It's called "slipstreaming". The easiest way to do it is with nLite. Here is what it involves:

1. Copy the entire OS CD to disk
2. Download the floppy driver to a location on the hard drive.
3. Run nLite, point it towards your installation, and add the driver when it tells you
4. Burn the result to a CD and install with that.

It really isn't hard, it just takes some time.

 

[mangyDOG]

The only way to do this would be to slipstream the LSI drivers into a new build of your XP disk. There are a lot of articles on the 'net on how to do this, but it would probably be easier to try a different floppy disk and different floppy drive.

cheers,
mangyDOG.

 

[MaxBurn]

How bout a USB floppy drive, have one of those around?

 

[Chewy509]

How bout a USB floppy drive, have one of those around?

We use USB Floppies all the time, but you need to modify the *.oem file with the driver set to load the UMS drivers at boot, so when it's installing the drivers it can see the floppy drive.

<cut'n'paste from email>

Here Goes the Fix:
Create your Storage device driver disk and open textsetup.oem
Add the following lines to the bottom of [HardwareIds.scsi.(device name)]
If this section does not exist you must create it!
If your USB floppy drive still does not work, look for the hardware ID in the floppy drive driver's .inf file, and make sure any legacy floppy drives are disabled in the bios.

Code that has to be added is as follows:

id = "USB\VID_03F0&PID_2001", "usbstor" #--HP
id = "USB\VID_054C&PID_002C", "usbstor" #--Sony
id = "USB\VID_057B&PID_0001", "usbstor" #--Y-E Data
id = "USB\VID_0409&PID_0040", "usbstor" #--NEC
id = "USB\VID_0424&PID_0FDC", "usbstor" #--SMSC
id = "USB\VID_08BD&PID_1100", "usbstor" #--Iomega
id = "USB\VID_055D&PID_2020", "usbstor" #--Samsung



Here is an example file


CODE
#//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

[Disks]
d1 = "Intel Embedded Server RAID Technology",\MegaSR,\

[Defaults]
scsi = MegaSR

[scsi]
MegaSR ="Intel Embedded Server RAID Technology (Windows XP/2003 64-bit)", MegaSR

[Files.scsi.MegaSR]
driver = d1, MegaSR.sys, MegaSR
inf = d1, MegaSR.inf
inf = d1, NODEV.inf
catalog = d1, MegaSR.cat

[HardwareIds.scsi.MegaSR]
id="PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2682&SUBSYS_10901734", "MegaSR"
id="PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2683&SUBSYS_10901734", "MegaSR"
id="PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2682&SUBSYS_81FF1043", "MegaSR"
#--The following lines give additional USB floppy support
id = "USB\VID_03F0&PID_2001", "usbstor" #--HP
id = "USB\VID_054C&PID_002C", "usbstor" #--Sony
id = "USB\VID_057B&PID_0001", "usbstor" #--Y-E Data
id = "USB\VID_0409&PID_0040", "usbstor" #--NEC
id = "USB\VID_0424&PID_0FDC", "usbstor" #--SMSC
id = "USB\VID_08BD&PID_1100", "usbstor" #--Iomega
id = "USB\VID_055D&PID_2020", "usbstor" #--Samsung

[Config.MegaSR]
value = "Parameters\PnpInterface", 5, REG_DWORD, 1

 

[Santilli]

Thanks for the help. Turned out it was the face plate causing the floppy to bind and not load. Pulled the floppy out, and, as long as the floppy drive has no label, it works fine.

Installed Fujitsu MAT refurb 10k, 110 dollars, 147 gigs. Hypermicro advertized the drives as 15k's, and, then would RMA for remedy, but, not do ANYTHING else.

The drives are about 85-92 mb/sec, and, 7.6 R.A.T. A nice improvement, but, not what I was hoping for, from a 60mb/sec
13 R.A.T. Seagate Sata drive. 15K would have been half the 7.6 RAT.

Anyway, it is rather prompt in most functions these days, and, the old install is still sitting on the SATA drive, so life is good.

Thank you all for your suggestions and help.