Because they ignore the enable bits. That is waht "FORCE" is all about. Cheers, On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Darren Nickerson wrote: > > >>>>> On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, "Arjan" == Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > Arjan> On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 02:05:37PM -0400, Darren Nickerson wrote: > > +> PDC20267: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary MASTER Mode Secondary MASTER > +> Mode. PDC20267: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS) > > Arjan> the bios marks your card as disabled...... not a lot the ataraid > Arjan> drivers can do about that > > That was fast Arjan. > > I'm confused. But then, you knew that. In the case of the Promise drivers, > binary ones, it's also marked disabled, but it works just fine! > > Any idea how I might ENABLE the IDE ports? Should I even expect the array > (created with Promise's drivers) to be readable if I COULD figure out how to do > that? > > Thanks! > > -d > > > > Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
