> > No, it is an older PIII with two IDE hard drives plugged into the
> > motherboard. To the best of my knowledge, this is not the case.
>>
> It was common for some boards in that era to still have a promise ide chip
> embedded in them.
I rebooted so I could check the BIOS and checked the boot messages
with dmesg. I see no evidence of an sort of RAID controller. Here
are the relevant dmesg messages:
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ICH: chipset revision 2
ICH: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: Maxtor 36147H8, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: CRD-8400B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: Maxtor 4D060H3, ATA DISK drive
hdc: Disabling (U)DMA for CRD-8400B (blacklisted)
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 117231408 sectors (60022 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(66)
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1 hda2
hdd: max request size: 128KiB
hdd: 120069936 sectors (61475 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(66)
hdd: cache flushes not supported
hdd: hdd1 hdd2
Brett