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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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  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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