Driver Update Question
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Posted by Jeff on September 13, 2007, 9:30 pm
Please log in for more thread options ...have a server that I built. W2003 OS, Raid 10 on a hardware controlled Adaptec PCI raid card with 4 drives. The OS is installed on the Raid array. To make a long story short, I need to update the Adaptec's driver. I have the newest driver files from Adaptec, but if I go through Device manager and attempt to update the driver there, and point to the folder where the driver files are located, I'm told that "windows can't find a better driver" in that folder (the current driver is much older). I think that the problem is that I can't update a raid driver when the OS itself is on the raid array in this manner. ...but I'm not sure how else to update this. All instructions I've found speak about either initial driver installation when the OS is installed or an install after a new raid card is installed, but not actually updating the driver. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance Jeff -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Conor on September 14, 2007, 6:52 am
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Posted by kony on September 14, 2007, 3:12 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:30:41 -0500, "Jeff"
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>...have a server that I built. > >W2003 OS, Raid 10 on a hardware controlled Adaptec PCI raid card with 4 >drives. > >The OS is installed on the Raid array. > >To make a long story short, I need to update the Adaptec's driver. > >I have the newest driver files from Adaptec, but if I go through Device >manager and attempt to update the driver there, and point to the folder >where the driver files are located, I'm told that "windows can't find a >better driver" in that folder (the current driver is much older). > >I think that the problem is that I can't update a raid driver when the OS >itself is on the raid array in this manner. > >...but I'm not sure how else to update this. All instructions I've found >speak about either initial driver installation when the OS is installed or >an install after a new raid card is installed, but not actually updating the >driver. > >Can someone point me in the right direction? > >Thanks in advance I suspect either the driver download was not properly extracted/decompressed/etc into individual files the OS recognizes yet, or the driver has a Setup.exe or install.exe, etc, file you're supposed to run to install it, OR windows is just confused and instead of only using the automated wizard to look for the driver, you need to use the manual browsing to the driver INF you want and telling OS to use it anyway even if it doesn't think it's better. That is, so long as you're SURE you have the right driver. One thing that it is definitely not, is an issue of updating the driver when the OS itself is on the array ran from that controller. That does not matter. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Jeff on September 14, 2007, 11:21 pm
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> On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:30:41 -0500, "Jeff"
> I suspect either the driver download was not properly
> extracted/decompressed/etc into individual files the OS > recognizes yet, or the driver has a Setup.exe or > install.exe, etc, file you're supposed to run to install it, > OR windows is just confused and instead of only using the > automated wizard to look for the driver, you need to use the > manual browsing to the driver INF you want and telling OS to > use it anyway even if it doesn't think it's better. That > is, so long as you're SURE you have the right driver. > > One thing that it is definitely not, is an issue of updating > the driver when the OS itself is on the array ran from that > controller. That does not matter. You were right. I was finally able to get in touch with adaptec support who told me that the problem was that the newest driver wasn't yet certified with microsoft (or whatever they call it) so I had to do the manual browsing as above (finally got them just before reading this). ...and it had nothing to do with the OS being on the array. I had a card go bad and major problems with the new one until I updated the driver today. I really don't understand why the new card didn't work properly without the newer driver while the old one did (until the 75cent fan went bad) even though both used the same firmware versions, but I haven't had any problems since the driver was updated. Thanks Jeff -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com | |||||||||||||
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> ...have a server that I built.
>
> W2003 OS, Raid 10 on a hardware controlled Adaptec PCI raid card with 4
> drives.
>
> The OS is installed on the Raid array.
>
> To make a long story short, I need to update the Adaptec's driver.
>
> I have the newest driver files from Adaptec, but if I go through Device
> manager and attempt to update the driver there, and point to the folder
> where the driver files are located, I'm told that "windows can't find a
> better driver" in that folder (the current driver is much older).
>
> I think that the problem is that I can't update a raid driver when the OS
> itself is on the raid array in this manner.
>
> ...but I'm not sure how else to update this. All instructions I've found
> speak about either initial driver installation when the OS is installed or
> an install after a new raid card is installed, but not actually updating the
> driver.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction?
>