Re: promise (105a:3319) unattended boot

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

Try to define 0 level RAID consisting of one disk only.
This works with Promise PATA, I dunno about SATA.

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:41:37 +0200, a.ledvinka@xxxxxxxxx
<a.ledvinka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Got here http://pciids.sourceforge.net/iii/?i=105a3319
> As http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html#tx4 calls it
> soft/accelerator raid version
> Going to use latest kernel from /pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/
> 
> But bios even with keyboard unplugged requires me to press one of 2 keys
> to either define array OR continue booting in case no array is defined.
> 
> What would you recommend me to do?
> - stay with ft3xx module from promise  and 10 level RAID array and not use
> sata_promise?
> - define some array in bios and completely ignore that fact and use
> sata_promise, bypass bios and define custom linux soft raid arrays?
> - anything else (no bios flashing and no hw hacking)?
> 
> AlL.
> 
> please CC me... but anyway if you forget i will have a look into archive.
> 
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