Promise FastTrack S150 TX2 Controller and RIS

[Chris]

Anyone successfully get RIS to work with a riprepped XP image
containing a promise fastrack controller? Followed the KB articles
and still get:

File txtsetup.oem caused an unexpected error (21) at line
1742 in d:\xpclient\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.c. when trying to deploy
the image.

 

[Rob]

I was getting the same thing (and also following the KB articles). This is
for a custom WinPE CD install with an Adaptec driver, modify for RIS
installation as necessary:

1. Make custom winpe image directory (using mkimg) - or edit an existing
image directory
2. Edit the \temp\i386\system32\winpeoem.sif:

[Version]
signature="$Windows NT$"

[OemDriverParams]
OemDriverRoot=""
OemDriverDirs=U320

3. Create \temp\i386\system32\U320 and place the drivers in there (.sys,
..inf, and txtsetup.oem ONLY)
4. Edit \temp\i386\system32\U320\txtsetup.oem:

[disks]
d1 = "driver disk set description", tagfile, \
(this section may contain folder names like \WinXP - those have to be
changed to "\")

[Defaults]
scsi = (entry name in [SCSI] section you want to load - the one that
corresponds to the XP driver set)

5. Remove any references to "dll=" and "catalog=" in the
txtsetup.oem...place "#" in front of any of these lines...Dlls aren't
required and can't be loaded this way - you'll get an error.

6. Make your image:
OSCDIMG -betfsboot.com -n -h c:\temp c:\newwinpe.iso

7. Burn the image...you now have U320 support.

 

[Chris]

Thanks Rob but I don't have a WinPE environment setup. I have a
standard RIS server setup with my base XP+SP1 image and riprepped
images of all the different hardware configs I have. The particular
config I recently riprepped was a Precision 450 with a Promise
FastTrack Controller. I have my TEXTMODE folder all setup with the
appropriate files. Seems like I'm going to need to copy the
fasttx2k.sys file into the base image somewhere inorder to get this to
work, sort of like what is necessary to get new nics without native xp
support to work correctly with RIS.

I was getting the same thing (and also following the KB articles). This is
for a custom WinPE CD install with an Adaptec driver, modify for RIS
installation as necessary:

1. Make custom winpe image directory (using mkimg) - or edit an existing
image directory
2. Edit the \temp\i386\system32\winpeoem.sif:

[Version]
signature="$Windows NT$"

[OemDriverParams]
OemDriverRoot=""
OemDriverDirs=U320

3. Create \temp\i386\system32\U320 and place the drivers in there (.sys,
.inf, and txtsetup.oem ONLY)
4. Edit \temp\i386\system32\U320\txtsetup.oem:

[disks]
d1 = "driver disk set description", tagfile, \
(this section may contain folder names like \WinXP - those have to be
changed to "\")

[Defaults]
scsi = (entry name in [SCSI] section you want to load - the one that
corresponds to the XP driver set)

5. Remove any references to "dll=" and "catalog=" in the
txtsetup.oem...place "#" in front of any of these lines...Dlls aren't
required and can't be loaded this way - you'll get an error.

6. Make your image:
OSCDIMG -betfsboot.com -n -h c:\temp c:\newwinpe.iso

7. Burn the image...you now have U320 support.

Anyone successfully get RIS to work with a riprepped XP image
containing a promise fastrack controller? Followed the KB articles
and still get:

File txtsetup.oem caused an unexpected error (21) at line
1742 in d:\xpclient\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.c. when trying to deploy
the image.