Promise Fastrak setup prompt disable ?

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Lars-Erik Østerud

When using the Promise Fastrak S-ATA raid controller on the P4PE you
are always presented with the "Press (ctrl-f) for setup" prompt and a
long pause at boot. There is no password if you press Ctrl-F, and
inside the raid setup one can really mess up things.

Is there a way to disable the setup-prompt, the pause and/or password
protect it (like on SCSI-controllers). My PC is used bt more people
than me, and I'm a bit worried that someone should mess up things :-(
 
When using the Promise Fastrak S-ATA raid controller on the P4PE you
are always presented with the "Press (ctrl-f) for setup" prompt and a
long pause at boot. There is no password if you press Ctrl-F, and
inside the raid setup one can really mess up things.

Is there a way to disable the setup-prompt, the pause and/or password
protect it (like on SCSI-controllers). My PC is used bt more people
than me, and I'm a bit worried that someone should mess up things :-(
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I think not !

If the bios of the fasttrack does not have an option with password.

Take a backup-image of the C-drive, on a single harddisk with no raid.
Drive-image can handle raid drives.

Else I would say that raid0 is not suitable for a PC with such users.
It implies a risk for the performance it gives.

I see you use windows 98. Really ? just a 6 year old OS. Win2k and XP
offer a much nicer setup with multiple desktops, one for each user, -
separate log-in.

best regards

John
 
JK (at mail dot dk) skrev:
Else I would say that raid0 is not suitable for a PC with such users.
It implies a risk for the performance it gives.
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I don't use it for RAID, I only have one drive on it.
So maybe there is nothing to mess up from the BIOS anyway :-)
I see you use windows 98. Really ? just a 6 year old OS. Win2k and XP
offer a much nicer setup with multiple desktops, one for each user, -
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And much more resource hogs, and icompability (I have XP installed on
partition 2, but until I get all programs working, I'll keep 98se :-)
 
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