There's a kernel sub-option under Promise support named 'Fasttrak support' IIRC. This force-enables the ports. Older Fasttrak66 cards didn't force the port off, and you could gleefully partition/format/install to individual disks while thinking yourself on a RAID, if you weren't careful. I personally had such an experience. BTW, if your kernel doesn't have the above mentioned option, it won't have the Fasttrak RAID support further down on that page, either. - Rich 'Forge' Mingin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Samuel Flory" <sflory@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 4:36 PM Subject: PDC20267: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS) > I was trying the ide raid support for the Tyan 2515 /w on board > promise controller and get this message when booting: > > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx > PDC20267: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 18 > PDC20267: chipset revision 2 > PDC20267: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > PDC20267: ROM enabled at 0xfeae0000 > PDC20267: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary MASTER Mode Secondary MASTER > Mode. > PDC20267: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS) > > > > I get this no matter how I confgure the drives in Promise's bios. > The system works just fine with Promise's ft module. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list >
