Repost: Failed to install IDE channels (primary and secondary)

[Emil Petkov]

I have a MB with Intel 865 chipset. The storage controller has installed
as "Intel 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers" with the latest drivers
from Intel. However the drivers for the primary and secondary IDE
channels fail to install with a message "Driver is not intended for this
platform".

I have Windows XP Professional 2002 SP1 with the latest updates installed.

New info: I replaced the driver for the storage controller with the
"Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller" and when trying to install
the two IDE channels Windows still fails twice with the message "Driver
is not intended for this platform".

How can this problem be solved?

Any help will be highly appreciated.

E.P.

 

[Mike Powers]

It may bne in fact that the drivers you are attempting to install are
for something older than XP, i.e. Win 98, 98 SE or ME; or even Win 95,
or Win NT. Go into control panel -> system -> device manager and expand
IDE ATA/ATAPI device drivers and right click on each one listed and look
at properties. On mine, anyway, there is a tab which will allow you to
see in what mode each device is running and also put it in PIO only. My
hard drive is selected for auto, Use DMA if available, and running in
Ultra DMA mode 5. The second device is listed as not applicable as it
has been disconnected. 0 and 1 on the second controller are a DVD-RW
and a DVD and are running in Ultra DMA mode 2.

 

[HansO]

I have a MB with Intel 865 chipset. The storage controller has installed
as "Intel 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers" with the latest drivers
from Intel. However the drivers for the primary and secondary IDE
channels fail to install with a message "Driver is not intended for this
platform".

I have Windows XP Professional 2002 SP1 with the latest updates installed.

New info: I replaced the driver for the storage controller with the
"Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller" and when trying to install
the two IDE channels Windows still fails twice with the message "Driver
is not intended for this platform".

How can this problem be solved?

Any help will be highly appreciated.

E.P.

I have the same problem. 865 based motherboard.
Installed XP, installed the Intel drivers and all was well.

I have a cdrom drive on secundary ide channel that looses dma
sometimes, the cure is to remove the secundary channel, reboot and see
the dma come back. Always worked fine this way.

Then i installed XP SP1a and and all was still well with primary and
secundary IDE channel.
But not when the cdrom is loosing dma again: exact the same message as
you see
"Driver is not intended for this platform" wehn XP tries to installe
the ide channel.
I also tried to remove the IDE driver and replace it with the standard
IDE dual chanlle driver and now both primary and secundary ide
channels are not getting the drivers. Looks like the SP1 makes the
driver unhappy.

Besides reinstalling XP, any advise?

 

[Hans Otten]

I did some research and, while not having solved the problem, it must have
something to do with the Intel inf updater. Installing SP1a now fails
complaining about atapi.sys being in use, close all apps. Thats a strange
message when no apps are running and according to the Microsoft knowledge base
it means there is a RAID driver from a thirdparty and please get an updated one
from that party..

Since this is an Intel chipset (ICH5 on a 865PE) and Intel did once have
support for that but now removed that support, I suppose I have remains of an
Intel raid? driver being in the way and no way to update it via Intel. Intel
mentions to use the Microsoft driver instead without telling how.

How do I get rid of the Intel driver garbage and start using that Microsoft
driver? Not a working procedure is replacing in Hardware the Intel IDE
controller with the default Microsoft IDE controller.

Hans (who has used non-Intel cpu's and chipsets for many years and will
probably avoid Intel in the future again).

 

[Hans Otten]

Problem solved. I had the deamon virtual cd tools installed.
After removing all went well, all IDE channels are recognized again.

Hans

 

[Emil Petkov]

Problem solved. I had the deamon virtual cd tools installed.
After removing all went well, all IDE channels are recognized again.

Hans

Daemon Tools is the troublemaker indeed.

E.P.