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 15:54:14 -0500 Message-ID: <47546CF6.30301@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> <475465F7.7050705@rtr.ca> <1196714235.6362.9.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]:2194 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751033AbXLCUyP (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 15:54:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1196714235.6362.9.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: >>> 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 >> - > > Right now I just boot using GRUB really, perhaps the BIOS hides the 9th > sector if it's in some form of RAID mode? I haven't had any trouble > using GRUB... > > I haven't done anything special apart from putting the drives in JBOD > mode, each disk is set to JBOD, it's set per disk, so not one large JBOD > over 8 disks, but 8 separate JBOD volumes. .. Man, what a quirky BIOS! Okay, so if I connect a drive and don't do anything in the Highpoint BIOS setup, it then corrupts the drive by overwriting the 9th sector on every reboot. But.. if I connect a drive and go into the Highpoint BIOS setup, and "initialize" the drive there, and then set it all as a "JBOD volume", it then leaves the drive content untouched on subsequent reboots. Screwy to the max. So, I might be able to boot from it by cloning the disk *after* setting it to "JBOD" in the BIOS. That will take a (longish) while to do.