Brendan Kowitz's .NET Blog

Hey Brendan,

I think the most problematic compatibility issue with Vista and the generic NAS is most likely to be due to the need for a Samba server v.3.. I've had some compatibility issues with my Linksys NSLU2, but after i upgraded samba.. everything works well`

It is still not working with vista-64. Allthough the site is telling you they have vista-drivers, they do, but not for vista-64. So be warned!!

I keep getting "Failed to install the Z-SAN SCSI miniport driver" on my Vista Ultimate.
On my XP Pro, the upgrade utility complained about some mirror problems and suggested to fix them. I should have said no, but I did not.
As a result my mirror was lost and could not be recreated on any exsisting drives. I had to do a lot of data copying to get my mirror back.
Big disappointment.

Upgraded to Vista x64 and can't find drivers for SC101. Had drivers for Vista x32. Also had problems with drives disappearing on WInXP Home. Waiting for Vista x64 drivers so I can finally upgrade my XP pc to Vista. Wish Netgear would hurry up and release drivers for Vista x64! It's been long enough!

Fresh Vista install including the official MS SP1.
Now has "Failed to install the Z-SAN SCSI miniport driver" , this was not the case without SP1

Does not work with Vista SP1... cannot install Z-san.

Not good Netgear!

Vista drivers or not. This thing is a pile of CR*P. Mirror breaks all the time and I have gone through 6 drives.

Netgear SC101

I purchased a new laptop with vista sp1. Netgear
has sent me all these fixes but none work. Very
exasperating. I keep getting the msg failed to install z-san driver or driver missing. I asked a tech. how to install on vista and he answered different questions but not the main question.

Just install it out of the "program file" or "Archivos de programa" directorys. Click custom in the install program and create a directory just typing it like C:\SC101T. and......¡VOILA, it works!

Does not work with Vista SP1.
(errors with "Failed to install the Z-SAN SCSI miniport driver")
can't install Z-san.

BED Netgear!

I'm having the same problem with Vista sp1, netgear told me to install the latest service Pack.. mmmm me thinks they have not got a clue !!

The trick for me was to disable UAC in vista. user account control.

Can't tell you how frustratng this has been for me. It was working well under XP, but when I brought the new Vista machine in as my primary, it wouldn't work for me. After an hour on the phone with an incompetent tech support rep, found this page.

I did a couple of things:

1) I went to my old XP machine an updated the firmware as instructed at their site (it took about 15 minutes for it to update once I started the process... be patient).
2) I disabled all of my McAfee protections (Firewall, registry watcher, etc.).
3) I diables UAC as advised here (found the instructions on another page).
4) I selected the "custom" install option, and chose an alternative install directory as advised here, as well (I used C:\Program Files\Netgear\SC101\).

It finally worked for me this morning after a very angry and frustrated night. :)

I got the "Failed to install the Z-SAN SCSI miniport driver" problem with Vista and also with XP after that I upgraded the SC101 to the newest firmware. When I tried to update the SCM utility to the latest version, I got the famous error message and the program deinstalled also the older version of SCM utility. I was close to give up when I tried to first deinstall the SCM and then to load the new SCM by using the custom install instead of the automatic "complete" install. And surprise: it installed my Z-SAN drivers properly. I did the same on the Vista system and it worked also without problem. I hope this can help somebody. No need to disable any firewall.

I got a refurbished one, 30 days warranty. It took me 3 angry and frustrated days to figure out all kind of different combinations. It' more like a reverse engineering process. BTW I'm a electronics hardware design engineer.
The instructions page of NetGear sucks. This thing is a damn time killer. Eventually I got it working under XP. Now I'm dealing with Vista SP1, I would like to thank GOOGLE and everyone here. So I got a clue to proceed. Followed Gregg M.'s approach, I got "Failed to install the Z-SAN Storage Class Filter Driver".

Maybe we are those working for Hi-Tech, no easy life. Same for NetGear, I just worry if one day they decided to let it go. What we gonna do with those special cared format discs.

Cool! Had problems installing on Vista SP1. With the changes conveniently listed by Gregg, the utility now installs correctly :)

Awesome, spent a couple of nights trying diffrent things and the suggestions left by Claude worked a treat!!! Thanks Mate
Markus

I'm running Vista Home Premium SP1. I used the advise above suggesting a "Custom" install and choosing an installation directory other than the default (i.e. C:\SC101).

The installation was successful for my SC101. It must be something in the default name for the installation folder that doesn't account for or match up with Vista. In any case, it worked!

I can't believe it.
After many trys, mearly changing the default instal directory made it work.
Strange!!!!!!!
Many thanks to those who posted to this list.

This worked for me....

Just install it out of the "program file" directorys. Click custom in the install program and create a directory just typing it like C:\SC101T. and......VOILA, it works!
Left by podarcis65 on Jun 15, 2008 7:31 PM

cr*p, the SCM utility can't be installed in vista x64.

FYI,

I have Vista-Ultimate-x64 and a netgear SC101 working reasonably well together, despite the lack of x64 driver.

Solution: I have installed a MS Virtual PC (this is free) running Win2K (I had an old license), and installed the SC101 package on this virtual machine. Then, you just have to share the SC101 disks on the virtual machine network. Vista will see them.

Voilà!

Olivier.

I have upgraded from Windows XP 32 bit to Vista 64 bit.
The SC101 ran fine on XP but not Vista, downloaded the Vista drivers from the Netgrear support web site, expecting a smooth update of drivers but no, drivers will not even install onto my PC, it seems that these only work on the 32 bit OS. My SC101 is now obsolete and maybe Netgear is going the way of General Motors Inc.
I just purchased the Linksys NSLU2 Network Storage Link which now gives me access to my networked drives through Vista 64bit and Ubuntu 64 bit and it took less that 5 minutes to setup