From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] sata_mv: Fix broken Marvell 7042 support. Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:30:07 -0500 Message-ID: <47544B2F.5080007@pobox.com> References: <4751A2DA.6030403@rtr.ca> <20071203154749.6lah7pulw8ow0s84@email.syntomax.com> <47543C58.4040106@rtr.ca> <475447A0.2010101@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:40129 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751334AbXLCSaS (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 13:30:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: <475447A0.2010101@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: hp@syntomax.com, "Morrison, Tom" , IDE/ATA development list , Tejun Heo , Alan Cox Mark Lord wrote: > The BIOS on the Highpoint RR 2300 *corrupts* the GRUB image, > so GRUB won't boot for me there. I actually have to re-install > GRUB after each attempt so that the drive is usable again > with the onboard Intel (ahci) ports. > > So one then wonders exactly what the Highpoint BIOS is overwriting, RAID metadata, one would assume from the 'RR'... I've no idea if the standard solution is applicable to HPT RR: going through BIOS setup and turning off RAID completely, or if not possible, putting it into JBOD mode. Jeff