If you want to disable Promise fake raid completely, you should not select Special FastTrak Feature" during kernel compilation. But if the contrary worked for you, then I dont know why..strange. Following is my logic but if the contrary worked then I guess atleast it tells us that we have to unselect the feature, see, if no luck, select it and recompile kernel. Requirement for Booting the hard disk: Array setup in FastTrak BIOS Requirement for not using array info supplied by that BIOS: Unselect "Special FastTrak Feature" in kernel Requirement for detecting Promise chip: Select PDC20xx controller support in kernel On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Samuel Flory wrote: > Murty Rompalli wrote: > > > > >3. At the time of compiling kernel: > >Unselect "Special FastTrak Feature" (because we DONT want to use FastTrak > >BIOS) > >Select Promise Controller support PDC20xxx (not as module). If you dont > >select this your kernel probably will not boot or will boot but DMA is off > >Unselect Promise Software raid (because we want a non-fasttrak ide box) > > > > > > > > You certain about this. Many onboard promise chipsets are skipped if > you fail to enable "Special FastTrak Feature". In any event there is > no hard in enabling it. As long as you don't insert the ataraid module > all you will ever see is non raid ide drives. > >
