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 19:23:39 -0500 Message-ID: <47549E0B.9070509@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> <1196726490.6362.21.camel@liza> <47549A26.6080900@rtr.ca> <1196727475.6362.27.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]:1745 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750818AbXLDAXl (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 19:23:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1196727475.6362.27.camel@liza> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Hein-Pieter van Braam Cc: Alan Cox , "Morrison, Tom" , IDE/ATA development list , Jeff Garzik , Tejun Heo , Alan Cox Hein-Pieter van Braam wrote: .. > also: on a side note, let me state again, that I'm extremely displeased > with highpoint at this point... their whole 'open source linux drivers' > thing is beginning to piss me off more and more. There must be something > that can be done about this? OSI perhaps? .. Their stuff has always seemed more than a little screwy to me. The solution for us here, is sata_mv, which will replace their drivers for this series of boards. But.. Wow! a BIOS that just arbitrarily decides to overwrite a disk sector when one connects some other drive to it, without ever even entering their BIOS setup screen.. And apparently doesn't even need to, since it does NOT seem to do the same thing to drives that are configured as JBOD within their BIOS. Ugh. Cheers