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 18:33:10 -0500 Message-ID: <47549236.5000809@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> <47546CF6.30301@rtr.ca> <1196722124.6362.17.camel@liza> <20071203231057.39ae9b71@the-village.bc.nu> 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]:1607 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751106AbXLCXdN (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 18:33:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20071203231057.39ae9b71@the-village.bc.nu> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Hein-Pieter van Braam , "Morrison, Tom" , IDE/ATA development list , Jeff Garzik , Tejun Heo , Alan Cox Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:48:44 +0100 > Hein-Pieter van Braam wrote: > >>> Man, what a quirky BIOS! >> Hum... I can pvcreate on the md device just fine, but after that, pvscan >> won't find it... >> >> I have a suspicion that there's a BIOS doing some sector hiding or >> replacement of sorts... >> >> *facepalm* > > That would make sense. However we have weapons to make it surrender. See > the "dmraid" tool - you should be able to use that as an example of how > to set up device mapper mapped linear mappings to "unshift" partitions. ... Ahh.. So dmraid is a way to work with using the HighPoint BIOS to define RAIDs. But not so advisable for maintaining adaptor-neutral pure Linux s/w RAID. Right?