From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261384AbTJ0J7J (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 04:59:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261492AbTJ0J7J (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 04:59:09 -0500 Received: from mion.elka.pw.edu.pl ([194.29.160.35]:31185 "EHLO mion.elka.pw.edu.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261384AbTJ0J7F (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 04:59:05 -0500 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Michel Bouissou Subject: Re: Patch for Promise PDC20276 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:02:36 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: abrutschy@xylon.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200310271009.13054@totor.bouissou.net> <200310271049.32819.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <200310271049.15348@totor.bouissou.net> In-Reply-To: <200310271049.15348@totor.bouissou.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310271102.36476.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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