Microsoft KB Archive/305469

= PRB: MassStorageDriver Installation Fails on Spanish or French Windows 2000 SP2 Datacenter Server =

PSS ID Number: 305469

Article Last Modified on 10/3/2003

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP2

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This article was previously published under Q305469



SYMPTOMS
When you use the integrated version of Spanish or French Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 (SP2) Datacenter Server, unattended setup fails if &quot;Retail&quot; drivers are specified in the &quot;MassStorageDrivers&quot; section of the Unattend.txt file if Unattend.txt was created for use with the original release of Windows 2000 Datacenter Server. You receive the following error message (or similar) in Spanish:

La Entrada &quot;Controladora Adaptec AHA-294X/AHA-394X/AIC-78XX SCSI&quot; no existe en el archivo de comandos desatendido en la seccion [SCSI] del archivo INF txtsetup.sif.

El programa de instalacion no puede continuar.

Presione una tecla para salir.



CAUSE
Grammatical changes were made to the Txtsetup.sif file in the Spanish and French releases of Windows 2000 SP2 Datacenter Server (Integrated). Windows 2000 Setup uses this file to associate human readable strings with various hardware devices. This file is also used to derive the name of the controller that is to be loaded in the &quot;MassStorageDrivers&quot; section of the Unattend.txt for &quot;Retail&quot; drivers.

When the Unattend.txt file specifies &quot;Retail&quot; drivers by using strings from an earlier release of Spanish or French Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, if Unattend.txt is used on the SP2 release, unattended setup fails.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, update the &quot;MassStorageDrivers&quot; section in Unattend.txt as necessary with the updated strings from Txtsetup.sif.



STATUS
This behavior is by design because the changes were made based on linguistic errors in the original release version of the Txtsetup.sif file.



Steps to Reproduce Behavior
 Create an Unattend.txt file, or modify an existing Unattend.txt file from the original release of Spanish Windows 2000 Datacenter Server.

For example, add the following section to the file:

[MassStorageDrivers] &quot;Controladora IDE CD-ROM (ATAPI 1.2)/PCI IDE&quot;=&quot;RETAIL&quot;

 Perform an unattended setup. Use the same Unattend.txt file on the integrated SP2 version of Spanish Windows 2000 Datacenter. Unattended setup fails with an error during text mode because it cannot locate the correct driver. The driver string in Txtsetup.sif has been changed to &quot;Controladora para CD-ROM IDE (ATAPI 1.2)/PCI IDE.&quot;

