Re: [PATCH] sata_mv: Fix broken Marvell 7042 support.

[Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>]

Mark Lord wrote:
> 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.
..

Say.. the 2300 board I have here has BIOS 1.0 on it.
Their website shows BIOS 2.2 available for download,
along with a Linux utility to burn it.

Mmmm.. What version BIOS is on your copies of the 2300 ??