Mac Pro SATA Performance Fixed under Windows XP

How did you get this sorted? I still have no sound
and the Realtek drivers won't install - either from
the Boot Camp drivers disc or even manual attempts
with the drivers downloaded from their website. I'd
REALLY appreciate if you could explain how you fixed
this.

Mac Pro 2.66
Mac OS X (10.4.7)

OOPS!!

OK, finally I have sound!! In case anybody runs into the same sound problem, see the following thread:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=624358&tstart=0

re the sound, I uninstalled the intel drivers & any sound related drivers in the software control panel, restarted, went to the device manager and saw a PCI device yellow flagged, did an auto install for that, then the audio device was detected, then reinstalled the bootcamp drivers & restarted.

viola

I think this issue points to variations in the mac pro hardware, compared with the intel drivers we are slipstreaming - maybe you could just use the sata driver and get the rest off the bootcamp installer & slipstream those somehow ?

With every copy of xp i've tried to slipstream with the intel drives i get a the following error:

"The file iastor.sys is corrupted" Press any key to continue.

Then setup fails.

Can anyone help?!

With every copy of xp i've tried to slipstream with
the intel drives i get a the following error:

"The file iastor.sys is corrupted" Press any key to
continue.

Then setup fails.

Can anyone help?!

yes, do not include the vist, windows 2003 or 64 bit drivers

only use the ones that say XP

One more thing, do you need to keep the /IntelDriver folder in with the xp installation disc once it's been slipstreamed?

Cheers

Mike

I am working on a web site to explain the SATA speedup slipstreaming process in EXTREME detail, with over a dozen screen shots. After wasting 6 hours myself, I figured I'd put another couple of hours into building my Mac karma.

It's like driving a car with a manual transmission, easy now - nearly hopeless your first try.

Should be up late tonight 4 Sept 2006 (Labor Day in USA).

Deleting original driver folder is OK, but it's small. You could have even put it outside the XP install disk folder tree.

You can also go from CD-ROM to DVD-ROM if you, for example, want slipstream all of Boot Camp 1.1 as well. There are special command line switches to the Boot Camp application to make it disgorge all its drivers.

Tommy H.

Thank you! My Mac Pro arrives tomorrow, the rest of the hard drives on Thursday, and Window's XP Pro sometime this week too. I'll be using your site with greatful gratitude.

Cheers!
Welles

I am working on a web site to explain the SATA
speedup slipstreaming process in EXTREME detail, with
over a dozen screen shots. After wasting 6 hours
myself, I figured I'd put another couple of hours
into building my Mac karma.

It's like driving a car with a manual transmission,
easy now - nearly hopeless your first try.

Should be up late tonight 4 Sept 2006 (Labor Day in
USA).

Wow, thanks alot for your labor on Labor Day. I know that should be a big help to alot of people including myself.

Excellent! We, the Mac Pro-slipstreaming-rookies of the world salute you!

I've got mine running well now but I sure wouldn't want to do it again. The thing that makes it such a tedious process is the time it takes to see if the slipstreaming worked or not - I think I made four discs in all. Your efforts will be GREATLY appreciated by many.

(btw - I did finally get my sound working thanks to these and other helpful posts.)

Mac Pro 2.66 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

That's great to hear that you got it all worked out, Phil. I'm a little behind the trailblazers and get to benefit from all your experiences! I feel lucky to be a little slow.

Got mine to work a week ago, great to have 58mb/s instead of that snail slow 3.3mb/s

Did the bare CD.
1) Windows Pro
2) Intel Drivers
3) Intel SATA Driver