From: Hein-Pieter van Braam <hp@syntomax.com>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"Morrison, Tom" <tmorrison@empirix.com>,
IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sata_mv: Fix broken Marvell 7042 support.
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:35:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1196728511.6362.30.camel@liza> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47549E0B.9070509@rtr.ca>
> 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.
>
It just seriously pisses me off that because of their advertising 'Open
Source drivers' they now sold ELEVEN of their boards more than they
would have otherwise... I'm just bitching I guess...
> 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.
>
Indeed, had I known any of this, I most certainly would have gone for
3-ware...
> Ugh.
>
> Cheers
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-04 0:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-01 18:07 [PATCH] sata_mv: Fix broken Marvell 7042 support Mark Lord
2007-12-01 18:16 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-01 22:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-12-03 12:27 ` Morrison, Tom
2007-12-03 14:47 ` hp
2007-12-03 14:56 ` Morrison, Tom
2007-12-03 17:26 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-03 18:14 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-03 18:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-12-03 18:32 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-03 18:37 ` Morrison, Tom
2007-12-03 18:40 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-03 18:44 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-03 18:42 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-03 19:12 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-03 20:40 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-03 23:59 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-04 0:20 ` [PATCH] sata_mv: Warn about Highpoint RocketRAID BIOS treatment of "Legacy" drives Mark Lord
2007-12-04 19:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-12-03 18:30 ` [PATCH] sata_mv: Fix broken Marvell 7042 support Mark Lord
2007-12-03 20:11 ` Hein-Pieter van Braam
2007-12-03 20:24 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-03 20:37 ` Hein-Pieter van Braam
2007-12-03 20:54 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-03 22:28 ` Hein-Pieter van Braam
2007-12-03 23:37 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-03 22:48 ` Hein-Pieter van Braam
2007-12-03 23:10 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-03 23:33 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-03 23:34 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-03 23:47 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-03 23:47 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-04 0:01 ` Hein-Pieter van Braam
2007-12-04 0:07 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-04 0:17 ` Hein-Pieter van Braam
2007-12-04 0:23 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-04 0:35 ` Hein-Pieter van Braam [this message]
2007-12-04 0:36 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-04 23:56 ` Hein-Pieter van Braam
2007-12-05 22:45 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-05 23:22 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-05 23:35 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-05 23:55 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-06 0:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-12-06 3:57 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-06 4:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-12-06 22:24 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-06 4:03 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-06 4:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-12-06 22:23 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-07 2:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-12-06 22:32 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-04 19:21 ` Hein-Pieter van Braam
2007-12-04 1:17 ` Mark Lord
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