XP Sysprep image - need to add SCSI support

[Paul]

Hi All,

I have a Windows XP Sysprep image we use for corporate deployment here.
A new workstation just came in with the LSI Logic Ultra 320 SCSI card -
and I can't seem to get it to work, I get the STOP 7B error straight
after booting. I've taken the driver files, textsetup.oem files etc and
copied them into the $OEM$\Textmode directory, and my sysprep.inf now
has the following:

[MassStorageDrivers]
"LSI Logic Ultra320 1020/1030 Driver"="OEM"

[OEMBOOT]
mpixp32.cat
symmpi.inf
symmpi.sys
txtsetup.oem
symmpi.tag

But that doesn't seem to be working... I found the documentation in
deply.chm to be pretty vague as to what exactly to do - any advice?

Rgds

Paul

 

[Paul]

Actually, scratch that, I now know these settings are for the
unattend.txt and not the sysprep.inf. I've tried adding in the lines:

[SysprepMassStorage]
PCI\VEN_1000&DEV_0621="c:\sysprep\pnpdrvrs\misc\symmpi.inf" ,"\", "LSI
Logic PCI SCSI/FC MPT Driver Install Disk", "\symmpi.tag "

To the image (using ghost explorer, so I'm not re-sysprepping it).

But I'm a little out of my depth here, so I'll explain more detail.

We've been happily using Sysprep to deploy to IDE drives and SATA
drives without any issues. This new workstation has 4 Serial ATA
drives, an LSI SCSI controller, and 2 drives show up in Device manager
as SCSI and two show up as serial ATA. I literally have no idea if its
botoing from the serial ATA controller, the scsi controller, or
something else.

Can someone please help?

Rgds

Paul

 

[Renee]

Hi Paul,

I sympathize with you because I'm working on a similar problem.

I'm not a corporate installer but I have a SATA DVD (Pletxtor 712-A) with an Asus P4P800-E Deluxe board. At the beginning of Phase II of the XP installation, the registry has not been set up for the CD Rom and The XP PRO (SP2) HAL dies as it's loaded. I've received an enormous education in the internals of XP installations in the last week. Fortunately I have two systems on my disk and the main one is still running but has some bugs so I must deal with this also.

To complicate matters my board has two possible SATA Controllers, the ICHR-5 and a Promise SATA controller so the hardware the DVD uses is dependent upon how the controllers drivers are setup in Phase I of the install. If I do an f6 load of the promise drivers during phase I everything goes well, I just hate messing with floppies during installs and am going through similar pains that you are, consequently my goad is to modify what I have to modify so the I can have a convenient installable image, so we are pursuing similar end goals. Depending upon BIOS settings and what drivers are loaded at Phase I - F6 time, the registry configuration changes radically. Sometime the DVD looks like a SCSI device with a mini port. With other drivers it looks like an IDE device. Any way, it's been an education.

To answer your question about paths and who is doing what, I would determine that from the device manager by looking at the driver configuration and then learning about the specific drivers that are being used. That should tell you. In my case with two controllers on the same board, it's all quite fluid.