CERC ATA/100 RAID card

[John Bown]

Thanks for replying Kurt.  So, if not by using the BIOS, do you know of
any other way to "demote" the card so it behaves strictly as a source of
additional IDE channels?

-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt_Olsson at Dell.com [mailto:Kurt_Olsson at Dell.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:58 PM
To: John Bown; linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: RE: CERC ATA/100 RAID card

The BIOS enable/disable changes the INT13 behavior of the controller.
That makes the controller a boot capable device or not.  If the BIOS is
enabled, then the system can boot from the controller.  

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of John Bown
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:24 AM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: CERC ATA/100 RAID card

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


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