How to remove SISIDE/SISIDEX?

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Neil W.

Anyone know how to remove SISIDE/SISIDEX drivers? Turns out they don't play
nice with the rest of the operating system. (They cache even when the OS
says don't cache, resulting in potential file corruption issues.)
Rolling back to the previous driver does not seem to work.

I have a P4S8X with XP Pro (all latest patches). I installed and
downloaded: www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/ide/siside204a.zip

Thanks for any suggestions.

Neil

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"Neil W." said:
Anyone know how to remove SISIDE/SISIDEX drivers? Turns out they don't play
nice with the rest of the operating system. (They cache even when the OS
says don't cache, resulting in potential file corruption issues.)
Rolling back to the previous driver does not seem to work.

I have a P4S8X with XP Pro (all latest patches). I installed and
downloaded: www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/ide/siside204a.zip

Thanks for any suggestions.

Neil

PS - if replying by email remove REMOVE
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Don't panic yet.

When you unzipped the install folder, there was a file
in there, by the name of "setup.ini".

There is an interesting setting in there:

Performance=1

Edit the file, remembering to restore the .ini extension if
your editor changes it to .txt again. Change the setting
to Performance=0. I am willing to bet, that if you run
the installer again (i.e. reinstall the same driver), it
will be installed with the cache disabled. (Whether this will
work or not, really depends on whether the SIS people actually
test what they write.)

I'm not sure exactly, what the meaning of the
DefaultSetup variable is. You might experiment with it
as well.

The "_ISDEL.EXE" file also looks interesting.

Ideally, you want to use "Add-Remove" to do this, if at all
possible. See if the SIS installer made an entry there.
Hacking the installer is reserved for when you just don't care
what happens to the boot disk any more :-)

I understand there is a thing called a "restore point", and
like Houdini, you might use that to escape if you get into
trouble.

Hmmm. Did a search in Google, and it looks like _ISDEL might
not do anything (search terms "SISIDE" "uninstall"):

http://groups.google.ca/groups?threadm=_%[email protected]

I guess other people have wanted to dump the SISIDE drivers
as well:

http://groups.google.ca/[email protected]

If you go hunting for the .inf file, as the previous post
suggests, sometimes they get renamed to OEMxx.INF, so don't go
looking for SISIDE.INF, as it likely won't be named that way.
I think I played that game once, with the OEMxx.INF files, and
had to go through the files one at a time, until I found one with
the right content.

If you really want to play it safe, do a backup first, and
then do your hacking.

Just some idle speculation,
Paul
 
By George, I think he's got it! They put in something called sisperf.sys
that must obviously do some of it's own performance caching. Except if the
OS says "don't cache this file" then by golly, the file shouldn't be cached.
They should post a warning "Do not install the SISIDE drivers if you are
running a high-performance database server!" It could mean the difference
between a recoverable and a non-recoverable system in the event of a crash.

Your idea of uninstalling and reinstalling worked, but I'd like to try and
find a simpler solution.

Thanks for the great tip!

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"Neil W." said:
Anyone know how to remove SISIDE/SISIDEX drivers? Turns out they don't play
nice with the rest of the operating system. (They cache even when the OS
says don't cache, resulting in potential file corruption issues.)
Rolling back to the previous driver does not seem to work.

I have a P4S8X with XP Pro (all latest patches). I installed and
downloaded: www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/ide/siside204a.zip

Thanks for any suggestions.

Neil

PS - if replying by email remove REMOVE
Click to expand...

Don't panic yet.

When you unzipped the install folder, there was a file
in there, by the name of "setup.ini".

There is an interesting setting in there:

Performance=1

Edit the file, remembering to restore the .ini extension if
your editor changes it to .txt again. Change the setting
to Performance=0. I am willing to bet, that if you run
the installer again (i.e. reinstall the same driver), it
will be installed with the cache disabled. (Whether this will
work or not, really depends on whether the SIS people actually
test what they write.)

I'm not sure exactly, what the meaning of the
DefaultSetup variable is. You might experiment with it
as well.

The "_ISDEL.EXE" file also looks interesting.

Ideally, you want to use "Add-Remove" to do this, if at all
possible. See if the SIS installer made an entry there.
Hacking the installer is reserved for when you just don't care
what happens to the boot disk any more :-)

I understand there is a thing called a "restore point", and
like Houdini, you might use that to escape if you get into
trouble.

Hmmm. Did a search in Google, and it looks like _ISDEL might
not do anything (search terms "SISIDE" "uninstall"):

http://groups.google.ca/groups?threadm=_%[email protected]

I guess other people have wanted to dump the SISIDE drivers
as well:

http://groups.google.ca/[email protected]

If you go hunting for the .inf file, as the previous post
suggests, sometimes they get renamed to OEMxx.INF, so don't go
looking for SISIDE.INF, as it likely won't be named that way.
I think I played that game once, with the OEMxx.INF files, and
had to go through the files one at a time, until I found one with
the right content.

If you really want to play it safe, do a backup first, and
then do your hacking.

Just some idle speculation,
Paul
 
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