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From: (PeteCresswell) on 16 Jun 2008 17:31
Per Paul:
>Next, I rebooted, and set the PDC20378 to IDE mode. Basically,
>all the symptoms appear the same. The Hardware Wizard is still
>looking for a "RAID Controller driver", and the Everest enumeration
>remains exactly the same.

That's what I tried too - same results.

Thanks for the validation.

>Another thing I've noticed in the past, is the possibility that in
>IDE mode, the drive still has metadata on it, as if it was a RAID
>device. So chances are, it is really operated as a RAID controller.
>
>Now, the next detail is, the nature of the driver installs. They are
>"INF" types. You go to Device Manager, do an update driver, and present
>a folder with the INF in it. Windows may pick up a driver there. And
>with RAID devices, it may pick up the driver twice (because of the
>psuedo-SCSI layer used in the interface).
>
>The next question is, how do you change from the RAID driver, to the
>IDE driver, or vice versa, when there is no "uninstall" in Add/Remove.
>You may find an answer to that in Google, but I don't remember the
>recipe right off hand.
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From: (PeteCresswell) on 16 Jun 2008 20:11
ePer Paul:
>The next question is, how do you change from the RAID driver, to the
>IDE driver, or vice versa, when there is no "uninstall" in Add/Remove.
>You may find an answer to that in Google, but I don't remember the
>recipe right off hand.

I flipped a setting in the BIOS setup, then fed it

D:\Installs - Drivers\ASUS P4 P800E\Drivers\Promise\378ATA\WinXP

and the install ran to completion.

Nothing's gone belly-up...yet.... so maybe I got lucky.
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