From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: [PATCH] sata_mv: Fix broken Marvell 7042 support. Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:45:44 -0500 Message-ID: <47572A18.2010904@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> <47549E0B.9070509@rtr.ca> <1196812599.6909.10.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]:2454 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752298AbXLEWpq (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 17:45:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1196812599.6909.10.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: > I zero'd all the disks, and now they show up as 'new' in the highpoint > BIOS again... so, I guess there IS some reserved part somewhere that's > accessible with the sata_mv driver. .. Yeah, that's my suspicion too.. they must have just simply moved the metadata to near the end instead of sector-8. Mmm... I'll try a smaller drive here, and zero the entire drive, then reboot with it on the Highpoint board, and then see what sector it modified. This'll take a while. Cheers