adaptec vista driver

Vista won't install without one. Know of a source?
Alternatively, I do not need the JAZ drive. Any way to disable it and/or the Adaptec SCSI card (short of removing it), so Vista installation can proceed?

"xotyl" wrote in message

Vista won't install without one. Know of a source?
Alternatively, I do not need the JAZ drive. Any way to disable it and/or the Adaptec SCSI card (short of removing it),

Okay I'll bite Why don't you want to remove it.
Todd

so Vista installation can proceed?

/Todd/ said:

"xotyl" wrote in message
Vista won't install without one. Know of a source?
Alternatively, I do not need the JAZ drive. Any way to disable it and/or the Adaptec SCSI card (short of removing it),
Okay I'll bite Why don't you want to remove it.

Because I will be testing Vista on the XP machine, and the JAZ will be used there for some time to come. Disabling the JAZ in the BIOS boot order has no effect; the SCSI card is detected prior to appearance of the BIOS screen.

"xotyl" wrote in message

Vista won't install without one. Know of a source?
Alternatively, I do not need the JAZ drive. Any way to disable it and/or the Adaptec SCSI card (short of removing it), so Vista installation can proceed?

I run an Adaptec 39320A PCI-X controller, and Vista had onboard drivers and installed fine...on a single drive. My RAID is a different story. Obviously no RAID drivers on board. Vista doesn't see it. And there's nothing on Adaptec's site even remotely related to Vista in the kb.
-Larry

Same here. Got an Adaptec 29320 PCI-X controller (same as 39320, but with only one channel). Under Vista 32 bit, the regular Adaptec drivers (for Win XP/2003 32 bit) *with* HostRAID enabled do work. I run a beautiful RAID 1 with two SCSI drives, I have no problem at all under Vista 32 bit. You have to load the drivers from a floppy either during Vista install, or later under Device Manager if the drive you installed Vista on is different from the drives connected to your 39320 controller.
Nevertheles, I don't know if the 64 bit drivers work under Vista 64 bit, though.
"Larry Hodges" wrote in message

"xotyl" wrote in message Vista won't install without one. Know of a source?
Alternatively, I do not need the JAZ drive. Any way to disable it and/or the Adaptec SCSI card (short of removing it), so Vista installation can proceed?
I run an Adaptec 39320A PCI-X controller, and Vista had onboard drivers and installed fine...on a single drive. My RAID is a different story. Obviously no RAID drivers on board. Vista doesn't see it. And there's nothing on Adaptec's site even remotely related to Vista in the kb.
-Larry

Have you tried XP drivers? They may well work.
Mike Bernstein
"Larry Hodges" wrote in message

"xotyl" wrote in message Vista won't install without one. Know of a source?
Alternatively, I do not need the JAZ drive. Any way to disable it and/or the Adaptec SCSI card (short of removing it), so Vista installation can proceed?
I run an Adaptec 39320A PCI-X controller, and Vista had onboard drivers and installed fine...on a single drive. My RAID is a different story. Obviously no RAID drivers on board. Vista doesn't see it. And there's nothing on Adaptec's site even remotely related to Vista in the kb.
-Larry

For my work / programming OS, I run XP x64. Adaptec has rock solid RAID drivers for that.
And I'm running the 64 bit version of Vista. I could try the drivers. I just don't want to trash the RAID, as it's my primary drive for x64, which has all my work stuff on it.
It's kind of nice this way, because Vista has no access to my RAID. Everything is safe and completely separate. I don't run a dual boot, but rather pop into the SCSI BIOS and tell it from which channel to boot.
from x64, I can see the drive with Vista on it. I've moved some data to it for testing purposes. I even moved my Outlook data over and now share it from both OSs (running Office 2007 beta in Vista). But if I want to dump it, I can simply re-format that drive from x64.
But...I do miss the speed of the 2x 15k Fujitsus in RAID 0 when in Vista...
-Larry
"Jean-Baptiste Faure" wrote in message

Same here. Got an Adaptec 29320 PCI-X controller (same as 39320, but with only one channel). Under Vista 32 bit, the regular Adaptec drivers (for Win XP/2003 32 bit) *with* HostRAID enabled do work. I run a beautiful RAID 1 with two SCSI drives, I have no problem at all under Vista 32 bit. You have to load the drivers from a floppy either during Vista install, or later under Device Manager if the drive you installed Vista on is different from the drives connected to your 39320 controller.
Nevertheles, I don't know if the 64 bit drivers work under Vista 64 bit, though.
"Larry Hodges" wrote in message "xotyl" wrote in message Vista won't install without one. Know of a source?
Alternatively, I do not need the JAZ drive. Any way to disable it and/or the Adaptec SCSI card (short of removing it), so Vista installation can proceed?
I run an Adaptec 39320A PCI-X controller, and Vista had onboard drivers and installed fine...on a single drive. My RAID is a different story. Obviously no RAID drivers on board. Vista doesn't see it. And there's nothing on Adaptec's site even remotely related to Vista in the kb.
-Larry

No, but I don't want to trash the array either. It runs just fine in x64... :)
"Mike Bernstein" wrote in message

Have you tried XP drivers? They may well work.
Mike Bernstein
"Larry Hodges" wrote in message "xotyl" wrote in message Vista won't install without one. Know of a source?
Alternatively, I do not need the JAZ drive. Any way to disable it and/or the Adaptec SCSI card (short of removing it), so Vista installation can proceed?
I run an Adaptec 39320A PCI-X controller, and Vista had onboard drivers and installed fine...on a single drive. My RAID is a different story. Obviously no RAID drivers on board. Vista doesn't see it. And there's nothing on Adaptec's site even remotely related to Vista in the kb.
-Larry