From: Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>
To: Daniel Taylor <Daniel.Taylor@wdc.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sata_mv and Highpoint RocketRAID 230x, corruption?
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:21:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CC2FD6D.3080709@teksavvy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25B374CC0D9DFB4698BB331F82CD0CF20D5FFC@wdscexbe08.sc.wdc.com>
On 10-10-22 10:21 PM, Daniel Taylor wrote:
>Mark Lord wrote:
>>
>> The RocketRaid BIOS that I examined here a couple of years ago,
>> liked to write "metadata" over top of whatever was in certain sectors
>> near the end of the drive. EVEN FOR NON-RAID DRIVES.
>>
>> I think it was the last even (power-of-two) multiple of 1GB
>> or something,
>> so if you leave the final 2GB untouched, you're guaranteed to
>> avoid it.
>>
>> Thus the recommendation.
>
> What happens to the backup GPT at the end of the disk?
Dunno.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-23 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-20 20:03 sata_mv and Highpoint RocketRAID 230x, corruption? Mathias Burén
2010-10-23 1:59 ` Mark Lord
2010-10-23 2:21 ` Daniel Taylor
2010-10-23 15:21 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2010-10-23 12:57 ` Mathias Burén
2010-10-23 15:19 ` Mark Lord
2010-10-23 15:20 ` Mathias Burén
2010-10-23 15:49 ` Mark Lord
2010-10-23 16:08 ` Mathias Burén
2010-10-24 12:52 ` Mathias Burén
2010-10-25 21:26 ` Mark Lord
2010-10-25 21:31 ` Mathias Burén
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