A8V-Deluxe and Promise controller, missing driver?

[SepticTank]

I have an A8V-Deluxe. I set up the Promise controller for IDE mode
(set in BIOS). I installed the IDE driver (not the raid one) for the
Promise controller, it loads. However, it immediately comes up
detecting another device called the "Promise SCSI controller
processor" -- but there is no driver on the ASUS disc that appears to
apply. The actual controller driver has loaded and it works, but this
second "SCSI processor" device appears. I have downloaded the latest
driver from ASUS's website, but still nothing. It's like the driver
package is missing a driver.

Any ideas?

 

[fasteddy]

I have an A8V-Deluxe. I set up the Promise controller for IDE mode
(set in BIOS). I installed the IDE driver (not the raid one) for the
Promise controller, it loads. However, it immediately comes up
detecting another device called the "Promise SCSI controller
processor" -- but there is no driver on the ASUS disc that appears to
apply. The actual controller driver has loaded and it works, but this
second "SCSI processor" device appears. I have downloaded the latest
driver from ASUS's website, but still nothing. It's like the driver
package is missing a driver.

Any ideas?

Was it this one?
http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/ide/pdc20378/378ata_100104528.zip
http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/ide/pdc20378/378ata_100104528.zip
http://dlsvr02.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/ide/pdc20378/378ata_100104528.zip
http://www.asus.com.cn/pub/ASUS/misc/ide/pdc20378/378ata_100104528.zip

I'd uninstall the device again and install the driver from one of the above
links.
Maybe, do it in safe mode and update the current driver manually, pointing
to
the folder yourself.
hth
Good luck
Eddy

 

[Paul]

I have an A8V-Deluxe. I set up the Promise controller for IDE mode
(set in BIOS). I installed the IDE driver (not the raid one) for the
Promise controller, it loads. However, it immediately comes up
detecting another device called the "Promise SCSI controller
processor" -- but there is no driver on the ASUS disc that appears to
apply. The actual controller driver has loaded and it works, but this
second "SCSI processor" device appears. I have downloaded the latest
driver from ASUS's website, but still nothing. It's like the driver
package is missing a driver.

Any ideas?

The Promise driver is what helps make a proper entry in
Device Manager, for the chip. Before the driver is installed,
it'll be some kind of unknown storage device. When either the
ATA or the RAID driver is used, I think both of those are
SCSI Miniport drivers, meaning they make the storage device
appear as "pseudo-SCSI".

One feature of SCSI is a linear address space. There is no
notion of CHS (cylinder, head, sector). A lot of devices can
be fitted to use the SCSI style command structure, and the
drivers job is to make a shim between the hardware, and what
the system thinks is a SCSI device.

Ordinary disks take IRQ14 and IRQ15, and fixed blocks of I/O
addresses. If other storage devices come "late to the party",
there is no more room in the vanilla IDE world for them. Thus,
they end up being declared as SCSI devices, and the OS calls
them using a SCSICMD type structure.

When you download the Promise driver, look for the .INF file
in the install directory. There are some declaration strings
in the .INF file, and that can be what you are seeing in the
Device Manager.

378ata_100104528
UlSata.inf
PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3373.DeviceDesc="WinXP Promise SATA378 (tm) IDE
Controller"
Promise_Sata_ControllerDesc= "Promise SATA Console SCSI Processor"

378raid_100137
fasttx2k.INF
PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3373.DeviceDesc="WinXP Promise FastTrak 378 (tm)
Controller"
Promise_Raid_ControllerDesc= "WinXP Promise RAID Console SCSI
Processor Device"

HTH,
Paul