Sata drive

[SSI]

Good evening, I am a photographer and I have 2 SATA drives installed and
would like to install another one so I can back up my digital images however
the motherboard has only two slots so I purchased a Maxtor PCI SATA card
however I am having problems installing the drivers for this card. I
downloaded the latest drivers from the Maxtor website and the instructions
were that I need to unzip them to a floppy and that is where the directions
stop! Now I am stuck on a treadmill of windows detecting new hardware
however it does not seem to want to take the drivers from the floppy drive
so here is my question. Do I need to go through the ritual of booting up
with the XP disk and press the F6 key to install the drivers from the
floppy? and if I do, do I need to do a repair install or right after I press
F6 and install the drivers I can exit?
The other two SATA drives are connected directly to the Motherboard and are
working fine.

Thanks for any light you can shed on this one.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Good evening, I am a photographer and I have 2 SATA drives installed and
would like to install another one so I can back up my digital images however
the motherboard has only two slots so I purchased a Maxtor PCI SATA card
however I am having problems installing the drivers for this card. I
downloaded the latest drivers from the Maxtor website and the instructions
were that I need to unzip them to a floppy and that is where the directions
stop! Now I am stuck on a treadmill of windows detecting new hardware
however it does not seem to want to take the drivers from the floppy drive
so here is my question. Do I need to go through the ritual of booting up
with the XP disk and press the F6 key to install the drivers from the
floppy? and if I do, do I need to do a repair install or right after I press
F6 and install the drivers I can exit?
The other two SATA drives are connected directly to the Motherboard and are
working fine.

Thanks for any light you can shed on this one.

What are the file names on the floppy disk?

 

[SSI]

Thanks for the reply, There is a folder called winxp and 4 files in there:
ptipbm.dl, ulsata.cat, alsata.inf, and ulsata.sys. The wizard goes through
the process and it seem to download the fine (green dotted line going across
the screen) and then I get the message that it cannot continue because the
file was not found. I checked and for example ptipbm.dll is there under
Windows/system32 same date and size!

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Good evening, I am a photographer and I have 2 SATA drives installed
and would like to install another one so I can back up my digital
images however ...

If those images are important to you, I would rethink that backup strategy.
I don't recommend backup to a second non-removable hard drive because it
leaves you susceptible to simultaneous loss of the original and backup to
many of the most common dangers: severe power glitches, nearby lightning
strikes, virus attacks, even theft of the computer.

In my view, secure backup needs to be on removable media, and not kept in
the computer. For really secure backup (needed, for example, if the life of
your business depends on your data) you should have multiple generations of
backup, and at least one of those generations should be stored off-site.

 

[SSI]

Thank you for the suggestions definitely something to think about! In a way
this drive will be redundant since I keep backing up all the images to an
external drive however you gave me a very good suggestion about off-site.
Thanks

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Thank you for the suggestions definitely something to think about! In
a way this drive will be redundant since I keep backing up all the
images to an external drive however you gave me a very good
suggestion about off-site. Thanks

You're welcome. Glad to help.

 

[Guest]

I read with great interest this problem, as I have had the same issue. I
wanted to install an additional drive to my system for,digital photographs
and video, so I thought a SATA drive might suit my needs. I do not have SATA
support on the motherboard, and all my ATA slots are full, so I purchased a
SATA controller card for the PCI slot from Promise Technology (SATA300 Tx2
Plus). When trying to install the driver from the Found New Hardware wizard,
I wound up with the same file not found error message that SSI has
encountered. I have since obtained another SATA controller from Vantage and
have encountered the same problem!
Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

 

[SSI]

I was able to resolve this one however I am not sure if this will work for
you. On a last stand try I thought of this: use the CD that came with the
card to load the drivers even thought they were not the latest one's. Well,
that worked for the Sata card but it asked me for the promise drivers which
I got from downloaded file from the Maxtor website. It seems that when you
download the drivers from the Maxtor site something is not right! Then, when
I went to the windows update, windows found the latest drivers for the
promise and they were downloaded fine. Everything is working ok now however
.....see my other post answering to "installing SATA drive" for the next
problem I encountered (the computer was trying to boot from the new SATA
drive no matter what I did!) and was able to resolve it. Here is my answer
in case you are not able to find the post:
............
I had the same problem a couple of days ago. Follow the recommendation of
the previous post however if the boot sequence does not 'stick' (mine kept
defaulting to SATA drive even though I was choosing the IDE drive . What you
need to do is actually disable the SATA as a boot drive. In the BIOS there
is a setting about hard drives (not the auto detection) where you can do
this My MB is ASUS and there is a sub-setting under the boot sequence where
it shows the hard drives. What you need to do is go there and disable the
SATA drive. After I did that computer booted normally then I went to my
computer/manage/disk management and formatted and assigned a letter on the
new drive.

Hope this helps you.

I read with great interest this problem, as I have had the same issue. I
wanted to install an additional drive to my system for,digital photographs
and video, so I thought a SATA drive might suit my needs. I do not have
SATA
support on the motherboard, and all my ATA slots are full, so I purchased
a
SATA controller card for the PCI slot from Promise Technology (SATA300 Tx2
Plus). When trying to install the driver from the Found New Hardware
wizard,
I wound up with the same file not found error message that SSI has
encountered. I have since obtained another SATA controller from Vantage
and
have encountered the same problem!
Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

 

[Andy]

What I would do is download the driver from the Promise website
<http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=138&category=driver&os=0&go=GO#>,
and unzip the driver file
(1_sata300_sataii150_tx_series_windrv_whql_1.00.0.31.zip) to the hard
drive:
Directory of C:\Promise

09/20/2006 08:44p <DIR> .
09/20/2006 08:44p <DIR> ..
12/13/2004 11:28a 125,440 ulsata2.sys
05/29/2002 05:21p 8 ULSATA2
01/21/2005 12:10p 9,729 ULSATA2.CAT
11/05/2003 06:06p 110,592 ulutil2.dll
11/05/2003 08:45a 17,408 bb-run.sys
06/29/2004 02:25p 7,680 DontGo.sys
12/13/2004 11:28a 875 readme.txt
09/06/2004 04:58p 521 txtsetup.oem
12/13/2004 11:28a 5,451 ulsata2.inf

During the Found New Hardware wizard, point the directory to where you
unzipped the driver file.

I read with great interest this problem, as I have had the same issue. I
wanted to install an additional drive to my system for,digital photographs
and video, so I thought a SATA drive might suit my needs. I do not have SATA
support on the motherboard, and all my ATA slots are full, so I purchased a
SATA controller card for the PCI slot from Promise Technology (SATA300 Tx2
Plus). When trying to install the driver from the Found New Hardware wizard,
I wound up with the same file not found error message that SSI has
encountered. I have since obtained another SATA controller from Vantage and
have encountered the same problem!
Does anyone know how to fix this problem?