Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: Patch for Promise PDC20276 | Date | Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:02:36 +0100 |
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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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