SATA and IDE drives in unattend or RIS install

[Robert Donald]

We have a RIS / Unattend build that works on a lot of devices however we now
need to add a device NX6320 which has SATA drives. Adding the drives to the
unattend file is OK and I can get the NX6320 to build fine however, all
other builds no longer work. Its as it the inclusion in the
massstoragedrivers section is not for "addtional" but explicit drivers.

Does anyone know if there is a workaround to installing both IDE and SATA on
same unattend or what I might be doing wrong.

I've heard I can disable SATA in bios for this device but I don't really
want to do that.

Thanks in advance
Robert D.

 

[Guest]

If youre running SATA & IDE drives together the BIOS needs to be set for
that.

 

[Tom Penharston]

This thread is a few weeks old, but it's important to me and probably
for others. I say just use whatever options you can find in the bios
to make it work!

This may or may not be similar to your situation. I had to configure a
Dell Precision with no 'combination' options in the bios. My only
solution was to pull my second optical drive from my reference computer
and use the PATA connection to connect a regular IDE ATA disk.

I used an Unattend linux boot cd to access my Unattended server and
proceeded with Unattended as I had on previous machines.

My image was fine. ATA vs. SATA doesn't matter in the realm of
imaging. Anyone want to agree with me?

-Tom Penharston