It can be a hassle to always have a floppy disk around and some machines don't even have a floppy drive. To solve this one can try to add the 3rd party drivers to the recovery console installation.
- Install the Recovery Console
- Go to the %systemroot%\cmdcons
- Copy your driver raidcntr.sys to %systemroot%\cmdcons
- Make a copy of the %systemroot%\cmdcons\txtsetup.sif for backup in case something goes wrong
- Open the %systemroot%\cmdcons\txtsetup.sif with a text editor
- Search for the text "ultra66" and you should find:
Make a copy of the line and place it below and change ultra.sys to raidcntr.sys :ultra66.sys = 1,,,,,,3_,4,1
raidcntr.sys = 1,,,,,,3_,4,1
- Search again for the text "ultra66" and you should find:
Now open the TXTSETUP.OEM which comes with your driver raidcntr.sys and find the Hardware Id of your controller. Ex.:PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_4D38 = "ultra66"
Create a new line under "ultra66"-line using the Hardware Id for your controller. Ex.[HardwareIds.scsi.raid_win200]
id = "PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_0D30&SUBSYS_4D33105A","raidcntr"PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_0D30&SUBSYS_4D33105A = "raidcntr"
- Search again for the text "ultra66" and you should find:
Make a copy of the line and change the ultra66 to raidcntr:ultra66 = ultra66.sys,4
raidcntr = raidcntr.sys,4
- Search again for the text "ultra66" and you should find:
Make a copy of the line and change the text to something you like:ultra66 = "Promise Technology Inc. Ultra66 IDE Controller"
raidcntr = "My Personal RAID Controller"
- Save the txtsetup.sif file and reboot and select the Recovery Console at the boot menu
Credits Alan P. Kennedy
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