Help please! I finally got SuSE 9.1 64 to run on my machine, I installed a 60GB P-ATA IDE drive because Linux refused to see my RAID-0 set on my VIA SATA interface. Well this actually turned out to be a very elegant solution, now when I turn the computer on, it will always boot Windows XP on the RAID array like it always did. If I press F11 during Bios Initialization I can choose to boot the P-ATA IDE interface which has Linux on it. And this actually works well, because now I have 2 operating systems completely separated from each other on the same system. The PROBLEM is THIS: When booting Linux, it constantly tries to probe and mount the other IDE drives (I think it HDA and HDB or something) which are the RAID-0 SATA drives. My actual linix install is on HDG the P-ATA drive. Well this probing causes errors and timeouts during bootup. I just want to disable the probing/mounting of those 2 SATA drives, and let it continue booting the P-ATA drive like it eventually does after 5-10minutes of errors and timeouts looking at the 2 SATA drives. Where in the system can I tell it to ignore those drives. The system works now, but it makes an annoying grinding sound while its probing those 2 drives and takes about 10 minutes too long to boot.
HELP PLEASE!!!

Not sure if its the same as with ordinary p-ata drives, but you can open /etc/fstab (as root) and comment out the lines referring to the drives you want to disable. Save and reboot.

bruno buys, thanks for the help, but it didn't work. I logged in as root and edited /etc/fstab ....I added a comment which I guess is supposed to be the "#" symbol. and it still searches the drive during bootup, with errors like: "Driveready SeekComplete DataRequest Error" amd "Buffer I/O error on device hda1" here is my fstab:

/dev/hdg2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
#/dev/hda1 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hdg1 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0

..is that correct?

Thanks.