AMD SATA RAID Driver integration doesn't work

[ca_jo]

For a Dell Inspiron 1721 laptop I used Vlite 1.1.6 final to create a customized Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 Dutch DVD. SP1 is already integrated onto the DVD, I use Vlite only to integrate drivers. All necessary drivers that I downloaded from the Dell support site work well, only the integrated RAID driver is not recognized during the Windows setup. It only works if I supply the location with the driver files during setup. If someone is willing to have a look at that driver (http://ftp.us.dell.com/SATA/R167809.EXE) to see if there something 'special' about it... Thanks.

Edited June 24, 2008 by ca_jo

[gaspoes]

Hi, I ran into exactly the same problem before. The drivers available from Dell are completely broken. If you want to be able to install XP in AHCI/SATA mode on an Inspiron 1721, download this driver:

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-68363.html

Then get nLite: http://www.nliteos.com/

Follow the tutorial on the site to build your own Windows XP install CD. You will need to streamline the above driver into your image. Select the x86 XP driver and nLite will give you an option to choose the "Textmode" version of the driver. That's the one you want if you are aiming to slipstream the driver