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Topic: [IMPL] QLogic 2400 series

I've used your Mass Storage pack which I'm sure many others have as well.   With the latest version of cards from QLogic being in the 24xx series a problem arises thanks to QLogic.

First their latest drivers use the same files names as older drivers and use the same names for their sys files and inf.  Now if you were to use your current Mass Storage Driver Pack then add additions for say the newer cards you'll run into some serious issues with any version of PE or RIS and even Sysprep. 

The problem is the files end up conflicting, which will result in almost a half hour reboot, sysprep run, and so on.  Somehow the older version Sys file and or inf file combine with the newer to create one terrible mix.

Now to fix this issue if anyone else has seen this is to REMOVE the older drivers altogether and download and use the latest 2460 version of drivers for XP/2003 from QLogic. 

You can leave the 2100, 2200 but have to remove the 2300 from the drivers packs that is currently there and use what really should be 2400 but as I mentioned thanks to QLogic uses 2300 naming scheme for the 2400 instead of stepping them up, they do seem to be backward compatible with the 2300 series - but you can NOT combine them both or you'll have some serious boot times and hangs... 

Just a little heads up for those that need QLogic Mass Storage Drivers etc. to work and are using these Driver Packs.

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Re: [IMPL] QLogic 2400 series

this is easy to address - we can have both drivers wink
We have to deal with this type of issue everyday and know exactly what must be done wink

Please save the team a minute or two and give us a link to the latest driver
(your tested known good driver), and we will add it... NP

would you be willing to test a nightly pack (beta) ?

Thanks for reporting...

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Re: [IMPL] QLogic 2400 series

Yeah I figured there was, another way and I figured it was probably a lot of editing and name changing etc. within .inf files etc. 

I was just posting a QUICK fix to get by and if people already made the mistake they could fix their systems by getting rid of those 2300 files from their systems and replace with newer 2400 files.  We found the issue when going from 2300 series cards to 2400 series and I noticed good old QLogic didn't change their naming scheme and this was during Sysprep where it caused all kinds of issues when having all the drivers in a folder then running the old bmsd switch then all h*ll would break loose...  LOL. 

We fixed by removing the 2300 altogether and instead of using the bmsd switch and just added the old device path in the registry instead for the right drivers etc.

Anyway here are the 2400 drivers link: 

http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com/QLogi … docid=5126

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Re: [IMPL] QLogic 2400 series

adding the driver to the packs is a quick fix...
well... it is If you have done it before wink

if you havent we have a tutorial big_smile
http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=2461
but it reads like the directions to build a nuclear sub. wink

its not nearly as hard as it sounds tongue

thanks for the link
one of the team mebers will probably drop you a link to a test version very soon.

Have a great day and thanks again for reporting!

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Re: [IMPL] QLogic 2400 series

This driver seems more recent http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com/QLogi … ocid=20052

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Re: [IMPL] QLogic 2400 series

I hear you.. there is no simple tut about DriverPack MassStorage, and what we have is sorta convoluted by the insert edits done to elucidate on errors one can all too easily make.

there is no public tut on sound (albeit there is a rough outline about how the pruning was done and how it gets done while doing an update.)

there is no tut on the exceptions (and that is likely to hurt us, because new DriverPacks will all have an INI, and some of those INI exceptions are not yet described the way ruudboek did for DriverPack MassStorage .)

The answer was 42?
Kind regards, Jaak.