From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: [PATCH] sata_mv: Fix broken Marvell 7042 support. Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:24:23 -0500 Message-ID: <475465F7.7050705@rtr.ca> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:3090 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750740AbXLCUYZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 15:24:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1196712661.6362.5.camel@liza> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Hein-Pieter van Braam Cc: "Morrison, Tom" , IDE/ATA development list , Jeff Garzik , Tejun Heo , Alan Cox Hein-Pieter van Braam wrote: > > Personally, I put all the disks in JBOD mode, but I never had these > disks connected to anything but my highpoint cards. Perhaps I should > tell you what my setup's like: > > * In the system I've put 3 Highpoint RocketRaid 2300 cards. > * Two of the cards each have 4 Hitachi 750GB disks > * Each disk is put into JBOD mode in the 'Raid' Bios of the 2300 > * On the drives I have 2 partitions, one 200MB partition and a partition > spanning the rest of the 750GB > * Both partitions are linux softraid > * /dev/md0 is a mirror of all 8 disks and serves as /boot (200MB) > * /dev/md1 contains an LVM volume that houses my other paritions (4.7TB) > > Right now with 2.6.23.9 + patched sata_mv the softraid seems to come up > just fine but I pvscan is unable to locate the pv located on md1. > > I'll try and make a bootable USB stick with my patched 2.6.23.9 and see > what the results are then. .. How are you booting without the USB stick? Are you booting from the Highpoint card drives? What bootloader ? Thanks