Adaptec Vista driver

[Guest]

Vista won't install without one. Know of a source?

Alternatively, I do not need the JAZ drive. Any way to disable it and/or
the Adaptec SCSI card (short of removing it), so Vista installation can
proceed?

 

[Todd]

Vista won't install without one. Know of a source?

Alternatively, I do not need the JAZ drive. Any way to disable it and/or
the Adaptec SCSI card (short of removing it),

Okay I'll bite Why don't you want to remove it.

Todd

 

[dev]

/Todd/ said:

Okay I'll bite Why don't you want to remove it.

Because I will be testing Vista on the XP machine, and the JAZ will be used
there for some time to come.
Disabling the JAZ in the BIOS boot order has no effect; the SCSI card is
detected prior to appearance of the BIOS screen.

 

[Larry Hodges]

Vista won't install without one. Know of a source?

Alternatively, I do not need the JAZ drive. Any way to disable it and/or
the Adaptec SCSI card (short of removing it), so Vista installation can
proceed?

I run an Adaptec 39320A PCI-X controller, and Vista had onboard drivers and
installed fine...on a single drive. My RAID is a different story.
Obviously no RAID drivers on board. Vista doesn't see it. And there's
nothing on Adaptec's site even remotely related to Vista in the kb.

-Larry

 

[Jean-Baptiste Faure]

Same here. Got an Adaptec 29320 PCI-X controller (same as 39320, but with
only one channel). Under Vista 32 bit, the regular Adaptec drivers (for Win
XP/2003 32 bit) *with* HostRAID enabled do work. I run a beautiful RAID 1
with two SCSI drives, I have no problem at all under Vista 32 bit. You have
to load the drivers from a floppy either during Vista install, or later
under Device Manager if the drive you installed Vista on is different from
the drives connected to your 39320 controller.

Nevertheles, I don't know if the 64 bit drivers work under Vista 64 bit,
though.

 

[Mike Bernstein]

Have you tried XP drivers? They may well work.

Mike Bernstein

 

[Larry Hodges]

For my work / programming OS, I run XP x64. Adaptec has rock solid RAID
drivers for that.

And I'm running the 64 bit version of Vista. I could try the drivers. I
just don't want to trash the RAID, as it's my primary drive for x64, which
has all my work stuff on it.

It's kind of nice this way, because Vista has no access to my RAID.
Everything is safe and completely separate. I don't run a dual boot, but
rather pop into the SCSI BIOS and tell it from which channel to boot.

from x64, I can see the drive with Vista on it. I've moved some data to it
for testing purposes. I even moved my Outlook data over and now share it
from both OSs (running Office 2007 beta in Vista). But if I want to dump
it, I can simply re-format that drive from x64.

But...I do miss the speed of the 2x 15k Fujitsus in RAID 0 when in Vista...

-Larry

 

[Larry Hodges]

No, but I don't want to trash the array either. It runs just fine in x64...