Re: [PATCH] sata_mv: Fix broken Marvell 7042 support.

[Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>]

Hein-Pieter van Braam wrote:
>
> Personally, I put all the disks in JBOD mode, but I never had these
> disks connected to anything but my highpoint cards. Perhaps I should
> tell you what my setup's like:
> 
> * In the system I've put 3 Highpoint RocketRaid 2300 cards.
> * Two of the cards each have 4 Hitachi 750GB disks
> * Each disk is put into JBOD mode in the 'Raid' Bios of the 2300
> * On the drives I have 2 partitions, one 200MB partition and a partition
> spanning the rest of the 750GB
> * Both partitions are linux softraid
> * /dev/md0 is a mirror of all 8 disks and serves as /boot (200MB)
> * /dev/md1 contains an LVM volume that houses my other paritions (4.7TB)
> 
> Right now with 2.6.23.9 + patched sata_mv the softraid seems to come up
> just fine but I pvscan is unable to locate the pv located on md1.
> 
> I'll try and make a bootable USB stick with my patched 2.6.23.9 and see
> what the results are then.
..

How are you booting without the USB stick?
Are you booting from the Highpoint card drives?
What bootloader ?

Thanks