Promise Raid Driver

[Chris Coho, Jr.]

I just ordered the parts to throw together a new PC, including the Asus
A8V Deluxe Motherboard. I downloaded the manual and paged through it
to be prepared for when it comes later this week, here is my question.
I see that when I create a RAID array and begin to install windows I'll
need to load the promise 378 drivers during windows install, no problem
there, but I wasn't planning on putting a floppy in it. Will the
makedisk program that throws the drivers on a disk let me drop them in
another directory and burn to CD, and if so does anyone know if windows
will load the drivers from a CD? If I have to I'll go grab a cheap
floppy drive to throw in it also, but I'd rather not if I can get away
without it.

Thanks in advance,

Chris Coho

 

[Robert Hancock]

I just ordered the parts to throw together a new PC, including the Asus
A8V Deluxe Motherboard. I downloaded the manual and paged through it
to be prepared for when it comes later this week, here is my question.
I see that when I create a RAID array and begin to install windows I'll
need to load the promise 378 drivers during windows install, no problem
there, but I wasn't planning on putting a floppy in it. Will the
makedisk program that throws the drivers on a disk let me drop them in
another directory and burn to CD, and if so does anyone know if windows
will load the drivers from a CD? If I have to I'll go grab a cheap
floppy drive to throw in it also, but I'd rather not if I can get away
without it.

Thanks in advance,

Chris Coho

Unfortunately I don't think Windows will agree to load the driver from
anything except an actual floppy disk. Apparently there is some way to
make a custom Windows install CD that includes the driver on it, but I
have never tried doing this..

 

[grylion]

Unfortunately I don't think Windows will agree to load the driver from
anything except an actual floppy disk. Apparently there is some way to
make a custom Windows install CD that includes the driver on it, but I
have never tried doing this..

cheap floppy drive?
I thought they came free in cereal packets

 

[Larry]

Last one I bought was $7

-Larry