How can I disable PDC20265 BIOS

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Hi all,

When I boot, the promise BIOS stops the boot process because there is no
raid array defined, and I have to type escape to continue without defining
one.  This is an issue here in NZ as power can be less than reliable (yeah,
yeah so I got a UPS  (Belkin silver series -works great and was cheap)).

So, is there a simple way to stop the promise BIOS from halting an automatic
reboot after power failure ??

I opted to use purely Linux software raid0.  I have three disks one for
booting and creating backups of my raid0.  This works great as have no need
for the promise driver and its limitations on kernel versions -am running
2.4.18 with EXT3 on the raid0. Also had no problems with the install as the
raid0 array is only used for data!

David

PS.  My software raid0 to two Seagate 40G udm66 drives

hdparm -t -T /dev/md0

291 MB/sec cached reads
63 MB/sec buffered disk reads





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