From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hein-Pieter van Braam Subject: Re: [PATCH] sata_mv: Fix broken Marvell 7042 support. Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:56:39 +0100 Message-ID: <1196812599.6909.10.camel@liza> 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from a80-126-0-120.adsl.xs4all.nl ([80.126.0.120]:59864 "EHLO ifolder.erca.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750885AbXLDX54 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 18:57:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: <47549E0B.9070509@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Alan Cox , "Morrison, Tom" , IDE/ATA development list , Jeff Garzik , Tejun Heo , Alan Cox I zero'd all the disks, and now they show up as 'new' in the highpoint BIOS again... so, I guess there IS some reserved part somewhere that's accessible with the sata_mv driver. that's a bit of a problem, because if you overwrite the RAID metadata, the raid bios won't allow booting from the devices... -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.