On Wednesday 25 June 2003 06:26 pm, Len Lawrence wrote: > A new problem. Asus A7V333 motherboard with RAID disabled - Promise > controller. Only ide0 and ide1 visible to the BIOS. I need to plug > in an old IDE drive in ide2 or ide3. I assume that RAID has to be > enabled for the BIOS (and Linux) to see these slots, but I do not want > to use RAID. Just want to have a third IDE slot. The manual only > talks about setup for RAID proper and all the discussions on the net > seem to assume that people will always want RAID 0, 1 or whatever. > First, is it possible to bypass the RAID setting, and second, will > changing the jumper wipe or damage the data in any way, on either > ide0 (hda) or ide2 (hdc)?
Most likely you don't have to do anything to use those channels as standard IDE devices. You don't say whether you have a highpoint of promise solution, but I use both my hard drives on a Highpoint controller, and the drives are autodetected on each boot and the kernel finds and uses the devices no problem. I had the same experience with a promise fasttrack pci card version. -- Greg
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