XP Mass Storage Drivers on Toshiba Laptops

A common way of installing Mass Storage Drivers for XP is to add a condition in your Task Sequence to query the Model of the machine and apply the relevant driver. The Deployment Guys have a great post on how to do this here.

The basic idea is that you have a step in your task sequence to apply (for example) the Intel(R) PCHM SATA AHCI Controller 4 Port driver.



On the options tab you would have a number of WMI queries which identify the machines that need that driver. In this example you'd probably see things like-

SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem WHERE Model LIKE "%Satellite Pro L500%"
SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem WHERE Model LIKE "%Satellite Pro U500%"
SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem WHERE Model LIKE "%Latitude E5410%"
SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem WHERE Model LIKE "%Latitude E4310%"




Unfortunately this type of driver application assumes that there is one chipset per model (in the above example, the Intel HM55 Chipset). This is not always the case. Take the Toshiba Tecra A11.

Some Tecra A11 models have the Intel HM55 chipset. Some have the Intel QM57 chipset. On both models, running the following code would return TRUE-

SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem WHERE Model LIKE "%Tecra A11%"

So, how do you identify the revision of the Tecra and therefore the chipset, in your task sequence? You need to query for the partnumber instead of the model. Toshiba store the partnumber of the laptop in Win32_ComputerSystemProduct. In this case the following code would return true for the Tecra A11 with an HM55 chipset-

SELECT * From Win32_ComputerSystemProduct WHERE Version LIKE "PTSE0E%"




Here are the SELECT statements to use for some of the other Toshiba laptops in the current range.

Toshiba Tecra A11 (Intel HM55 Chipset)
SELECT * From Win32_ComputerSystemProduct WHERE Version LIKE "PTSE0E%"

Toshiba Tecra A11 (Intel QM57 Chipset)
SELECT * From Win32_ComputerSystemProduct WHERE Version LIKE "PTSE1E%"

Toshiba Tecra M11 (Intel HM55 Chipset)
SELECT * From Win32_ComputerSystemProduct WHERE Version LIKE "PTME0E%"

Toshiba Tecra M11 (Intel QM57 Chipset)
SELECT * From Win32_ComputerSystemProduct WHERE Version LIKE "PTME1E%"

Toshiba Portege R700 (Intel HM55 Chipset)
SELECT * From Win32_ComputerSystemProduct WHERE Version LIKE "PT310E%"

Toshiba Portege R700 (Intel QM57 Chipset)
SELECT * From Win32_ComputerSystemProduct WHERE Version LIKE "PT311E%"

So, adding the Toshiba HM55 models to the above example would give us this