How about setting the chipset function to ATA100, not RAID0/1? The jumper for that appears to be JP2601, according to the manual that's online from Asus. On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 20:55, David Wade wrote: > Sorry, missed that bit of important info. > > Its an ASUS A7V266-E with the PDC20265 on-board. > > The promise BIOS is Fasttrak100 version 1.31 > > There is no menu option in the promise bios to disable "halt on error" > > thanks > > -----Original Message----- > From: ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Richard Barrington > Sent: Sunday, 22 September 2002 12:58 p.m. > To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: How can I disable PDC20265 BIOS > > > Can you not just disable "halt on error" in the raid bios? You didn't > say which card / mainboard you are using, but that should work with most > systems, I think. > > On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 11:40, David Wade wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list >
