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SubjectRe: Patch for Promise PDC20276
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On Monday 27 of October 2003 10:49, Michel Bouissou wrote:
> Le Lundi 27 Octobre 2003 10:49, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz a écrit :
> > This was discussed few times before.
> > Just enable "Special FastTrak feature" (overriding BIOS) config option.
>
> Uh. I may have misunderstood, but I understood that using this option would
> activate the controller's hardware RAID feature, which I don't want.

Quite opposite, it makes Linux use controller even if it was marked by BIOS
as disabled (for RAID purposes).

> I need to use the controller as a normal, non-RAID, IDE controller (and if
> ever if was setup as hardware RAID, I'm afraid it would destroy my data..)

It is software RAID (in BIOS/drivers) with propertiary format.

cheers,
--bartlomiej

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