Mac Pro SATA Performance Fixed under Windows XP

Help!! Can someone re-post the instruction again? The link is not longer available...

Mac Pro Windows XP Pro

Hi,

This is great news. Does this mean that all major issues with XP on the Mac pro are now unofficially resolved? Concerning performance, USB/USB2/firewire ports, mouse/keyboard, games, displays etc.

I am considering getting a Mac Pro, and I am a PC user (have always been) but I require to run software that is only available on the Mac. I guess what my question boils down to is, if the Mac Pro really is the best of both worlds, or just a really great Mac, plus a slow half-*** PC with lots'a bugs?

Custom 3.2Ghz HT PC Windows XP Pro

PLEASE repost instructions. Thought I had saved it by printing to a PDF but the instructions are actually a big graphic which ran off the page!! Everything is ready but the detailed instructions!

See http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=223679&page=9

PDF of instructions:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=223679&page=9

I will give it another try then. One question you say you installed the SATA and chipset drivers. Which ones? I am confused about the driver intergration section of the instructions. I get 7 choices (I think) for the chipset driver and the instructions say to choose just one. Is this what you did?

Just so I fully understand - you didn't intall any chipset drivers, just the SATA one and it worked? Did you use the SATA driver the OP suggests (an older one) or the one found at the link he gives which is newer?

Hello!

i'm trying to create the customized install cd here (using parallels)

i got the "631xESB/632xESB Driver"
which contains "imsm windows_x86-x64v.5.6.2.1002" folder
which contains "32bit" folder and "64bit" folder

-> i guessed i need the 32bit folder (i use the 32bit windows)

i got the "5000X Chipset Drivers"
which is just a setup application "iata61_enu.exe"
(i downloaded the english version, not the multilanguage version)
(i am very unsure if this is the file i need)

i put the contents of the "32bit" folder and "iata61_enu.exe"
into a "MacPro" folder to include this folder with nlite.

when i get into nlite then i can select the folder "MacPro" with
select multiple files and it shows me 6 different "...82801...SATA"
and 2 "...ESB2 SATA" items.

now i dont have any idea

...which files to select
...if i got all the files i need
...if i got the right files at all

Could anybody who succeded a this describe more detailed
which drivers to include to the windows install cd ?

thanks for any reply !

Put all the drivers you extracted into a separate folder in the MacPro folder you made.

'When you come up to Integrating the device drivers you MUST install the Intel Drivers you have downloaded. Select the "Insert" tab, followed by the "Multiple Driver Folder"'

Select the new folder you made and added both the drivers to and select all the drivers and insert them. When I followed the guys instructions word for word it listed a bunch of extra drivers I didn't recognize so I did that extra step. Don't forget the next step.

'A second window will appear listing driver names in the "Text mode integration options". Select the ESB2 SATA RAID Controller (Server ESB2) entry, and press okay. The window will reappear, click cancel. Confirm that the "Intel, TXT-iaStore_ESB2, HDC, 5.6.2.1 002, 01/16/2006" item is present in the list. Click next, and continue following the nLite instructions.'

I will give it another try then. One question you say
you installed the SATA and chipset drivers. Which
ones? I am confused about the driver intergration
section of the instructions. I get 7 choices (I
think) for the chipset driver and the instructions
say to choose just one. Is this what you did?

I chose the single SATA driver (the one the guy listed in the original post), and all of the chipset drivers. The instructions on the chipset drivers were a little vague, since some of them are for different operating systems. I figured I'd pick them all, and Windows would use whichever one was appropriate. I guess it worked out fine that way.

I didn't slipstream any of the hacks the guy listed, but I'm sure that they would work also, as advertised. I really don't care if Big Brother Microsoft knows that I'm updating my copy of windows with the latest critical updates. If they want to know what I Tivo, I'll gladly let them know too.

... hmmmm, very confusing!

this is from macrumors :

"... When you come up to Integrating the device drivers you MUST install the Intel Drivers you have downloaded. Select the "Insert" tab, followed by the "Multiple Driver Folder". If you followed my suggested directory naming structure, select the "C:\MacXP" folder, and click okay. A window will display all the Intel Drivers. Select All, then Okay. A second window will appear listing driver names in the "Text mode integration options". Select the ESB2 SATA RAID Controller (Server ESB2) entry, and press okay. The window will reappear, click cancel. Confirm that the "Intel, TXT-iaStore_ESB2, HDC, 5.6.2.1 002, 01/16/2006" item is present in the list. Click next, and continue following the nLite instructions. ..."

...

i got this driver, it is in the 631xESB/632xESB Drivers file i downloaded.

but what about the 5000X Driver which was mentioned. Can you tell me if
it is really needed too and where to get it exactly.

By 'install' I assumed he meant to integrate into the xp cd you were creating.

You need the chipset and the sata drivers. The link was posted earlier...

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/confirm.aspx?httpDown=http:/ /downloadmirror.intel.com/df-support/11207/eng/imsmwindows_x86-x64v.5.6.2.1002.zip&agr=y&ProductID=2487&DwnldId=11207&strOSs=All&OSFullName=All%20 Operating%20Systems&lang=eng
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/confirm.aspx?httpDown=http:/ /downloadmirror.intel.com/df-support/11455/a08/infinst_autol.zip&agr=N&ProductID =816&DwnldId=11455&strOSs=All&OSFullName=All%20Operating%20Systems&lang=eng

Mac Pro 2.0 Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Hi,

do you know, where I can get the driver files for the Soundcard ? Everything works great with this workaround, but the f.king Soundcard doesn´t work here and also the Bootcamp driver CD works for the soundcard.
The HP from realtek is sooo slow - it would last over two hours to get the HD files - is there no other solution (maybe extracting the *.exe from the bootcamp CD ?) ?

Yes, just the SATA drivers, the newest versions from the Intel site.

All the other drivers are supplied via the Bootcamp CD that is created.

I took this approach because the only thing that was actually wrong with running Windows on the Mac Pro was the lack of support for the ACHI SATA drivers used by the Intel chipsets on the motherboard. You could create a slipstream CD with all the needed drivers and security updates, but I just wanted to quickly confirm that Windows would operate correctly with no inherent hard drive performance issues.


So the minimum needed CD is a Windows XP SP2 installation CD slipstreamed to include the ACHI SATA drivers from the Intel site. Anything beyond that is gravy!

Tom N.

Hi,

do you know, where I can get the driver files for the
Soundcard ? Everything works great with this
workaround, but the f.king Soundcard doesn´t work
here and also the Bootcamp driver CD works for the
soundcard.
The HP from realtek is sooo slow - it would last over
two hours to get the HD files - is there no other
solution (maybe extracting the *.exe from the
bootcamp CD ?) ?

After Windows installed, I inserted the BootCamp 1.1 driver disc as normal. Everything proceded automatically, but when it was done, the sound was non-existing. I just followed the instructions to click on the PCI Device listed in Device Manager, and pointed it to the Realtek WDM directory (Macintosh Drivers for Windows XP folder in Program Files folder). After it loaded that driver, I had a new exclamation point device named "audio something..." that I had to point to the Realtek folder again. Now the sound is working fine.