First post, by brian105
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I decided to multiboot my K6 system that already has 98se, by installing NT 4 and XP. I currently have a Maxtor SATA card in it, which is basically just a rebranded Promise SATA 150 TX2 Plus (even says so in device manager.)
I wrote the Maxtor drivers to a floppy, booted NT 4's setup, and while I can select the device driver to use, it then says I have no hard drives plugged in and can't proceed with setup.
I also tried the original Promise drivers on a floppy, and got the same result.
Strangely, the original Promise drivers work just fine in XP's setup, so I thought maybe the PCI IDs don't match in the NT 4 and XP .inf's.
But both share these IDs:
%PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3375.DeviceDesc%=ultra375PCI,PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3375,PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3318,PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_6626
%Promise_Sata_ControllerDesc%=NODRV,SCSI\Promise_SATA_CONSOLE_
Additionally, here is what the Maxtor's inf for 98 (which is working now) has:
%PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_6626.DeviceDesc%=Ultra618PCI,PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_6626
%PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3375.DeviceDesc%=Ultra375PCI,PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3375
%PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3318.DeviceDesc%=Ultra318PCI,PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3318
%PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3319&SUBSYS_34278086.DeviceDesc%=Ultra319PCI3427,PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3319&SUBSYS_34278086
%PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3319&SUBSYS_34298086.DeviceDesc%=Ultra319PCI3429,PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3319&SUBSYS_34298086
Seems the same to me. So, I'm at a loss as to what to do. If anybody has a similar experience and figured it out, please share what you did!
Presario 5284: K6-2+ 550 ACZ @ 600 2v, 256MB PC133, GeForce4 MX 440SE 64MB, MVP3, Maxtor SATA/150 PCI card, 16GB Sandisk U100 SATA SSD
2007 Desktop: Athlon 64 X2 6000+, Asus M2v-MX SE, Foxconn 7950GT 512mb, 4GB DDR2 800, Audigy 2 ZS, WinME/XP