From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: [PATCH] sata_mv: Fix broken Marvell 7042 support. Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:36:40 -0500 Message-ID: <4754A118.5060407@rtr.ca> References: <4751A2DA.6030403@rtr.ca> <20071203154749.6lah7pulw8ow0s84@email.syntomax.com> <47543C58.4040106@rtr.ca> <475447A0.2010101@rtr.ca> <47544B3C.2010901@rtr.ca> <1196712661.6362.5.camel@liza> <475465F7.7050705@rtr.ca> <1196714235.6362.9.camel@liza> <47546CF6.30301@rtr.ca> <1196722124.6362.17.camel@liza> <20071203231057.39ae9b71@the-village.bc.nu> <1196726490.6362.21.camel@liza> <47549A26.6080900@rtr.ca> <1196727475.6362.27.camel@liza> <47549E0B.9070509@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:2148 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750914AbXLDAgm (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 19:36:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <47549E0B.9070509@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Hein-Pieter van Braam Cc: Alan Cox , "Morrison, Tom" , IDE/ATA development list , Jeff Garzik , Tejun Heo , Alan Cox Mark Lord wrote: > Hein-Pieter van Braam wrote: > .. >> also: on a side note, let me state again, that I'm extremely displeased >> with highpoint at this point... their whole 'open source linux drivers' >> thing is beginning to piss me off more and more. There must be something >> that can be done about this? OSI perhaps? > .. > > Their stuff has always seemed more than a little screwy to me. > > The solution for us here, is sata_mv, which will replace their drivers > for this series of boards. > > But.. Wow! a BIOS that just arbitrarily decides to overwrite a disk > sector > when one connects some other drive to it, without ever even entering their > BIOS setup screen.. And apparently doesn't even need to, since it does > NOT > seem to do the same thing to drives that are configured as JBOD within > their BIOS. > > Ugh. .. Say.. the 2300 board I have here has BIOS 1.0 on it. Their website shows BIOS 2.2 available for download, along with a Linux utility to burn it. Mmmm.. What version BIOS is on your copies of the 2300 ??