• Sereby
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Topic: [SOLVED] included sys files with wrong names!?

i created a installation with the massstorage drivers (textmode) included and copyed the new .sys files in i386 to another folder because i need them for a WINPE image which i'm working on.
and after expanding them i saw that 12 of these compressed sys files have another name if they are expanded!!!

so my question is why do they have different names when they are extracted?

here the 12 files:
3WARE78K.SY_
AHPT3XX.SY_
3WARE9K.SY_
3WARE95K.SY_
614X.SY_
AADPU320.SY_
AFTX2K.SY_
ATI3112R.SY_
IASTROLD.SY_
PNP949R.SY_
RHPT3XX.SY_
RR404.SY_


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  • Jaak
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Re: [SOLVED] included sys files with wrong names!?

3ware78k.sy_ becomes 3wdrv100.sys which comes from
D\M\3\2

3ware9K.sy_ and 3ware95k.sy_ both become 3waredrv.sys (with different filesize) and they come from
D\M\3\1
D\M\3\1\O

I haven't looked at the others but figure this has to do with driver exeption filtering?

there was one thing I noticed when I unpacked a file I had renamed with makebase...
what I had done was makebase file_01.inf file_202.IN_

when I told 7zip to unpack file_202.in_ "here", I got file_01.inf, which made me think the original filename has been stored or tagged in the file descripors.

with expand, you actually have to use the destination name.
after filtering, the one that has to be applied can be expanded with the correct name, just the one...
OR???  or they go to different folders? (w/i what I don't think.)

anyhow, this is guesswork.
Bâshrat the Sneaky knows why.

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Kind regards, Jaak.
  • Jaak
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Re: [SOLVED] included sys files with wrong names!?

hmmm
further gueswork.
I am thinking about the inf files they are referenced in.
If these were changed to use the new name, would that be a problem?

but, otoh, maybe this is why there is a problem with some of the highpoint controllers.
I'm intrigued as well.

edit
AHpt and Rhpt both had HPT3XX.sys as original name

Last edited by jtdoom (2006-10-03 08:05:41)

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Re: [SOLVED] included sys files with wrong names!?

It's a workaround for duplicate filenames. For example:

ati3112r.sy_ and si3112r.sy_ are in decompressed state both named si3112r.sys, but you cannot include two files with identical filenames in one directory when you use Windows. That's the one and only reason wink

I've been doing this for more than a year now, and I've yet to encounter the first issue with this workaround, so in case you're wondering, yes, this is reliable.

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  • Jaak
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Re: [SOLVED] included sys files with wrong names!?

both inf files for the Highpoint ATA and SATA controllers reference to hpt3xx.sys

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Re: [SOLVED] included sys files with wrong names!?

actually, there exist THREE hpt3xx.inf files and hpt3xx.sys files.

Can you believe I cannot recall why the 1520 sata raid controllers are not put in my boxes?
I was tidying the cabonets and drawers today, and found two 1520 controllers.
I do remember I could no longer use older types because they were not good for SP2... but why are these not used.
hmmm, the testbox has its guts in plain view...

The answer was 42?
Kind regards, Jaak.