CERC ATA/100 RAID card

[John Bown]

Good afternoon everyone.  I'm hoping a few of the Dell folks out there
can help me.

After purchasing one of the subject cards on eBay for a PE 1600SC, I
learned that support for it has officially been dropped from the Linux
kernel.  Joy.  At any rate, I read in the "MegaRAID i4 IDE RAID
Controller Hardware Guide" that I downloaded from LSI's website (the
manufacturer) that a jumper on the card itself, J2, can be used to
enable/disable the card's BIOS.

With that I ask, if I disabled the card's BIOS, would openSUSE 10.3
and/or SLES 10 SP1 see the card as an additional IDE controller instead
of a RAID controller?  I'm hoping that if classified as the former, the
card won't need the now discontinued RAID driver.  That way, I could at
least use this thing for software RAID.

Thank you all for your time.


John