From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: marvell sata status? Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:18:35 -0500 Message-ID: <495E769B.8000407@rtr.ca> References: <20090101051038.GD3386@pimb.org> <495CCE0F.7010002@rtr.ca> <20090101184450.GG3386@pimb.org> <20090101194302.GH3386@pimb.org> <495E3C92.2070304@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:60090 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751239AbZABURF (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2009 15:17:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Justin Piszcz Cc: Jody Belka , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik Justin Piszcz wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Mark Lord wrote: >> I suppose, of all of the vendors, Adaptec probably has the best chance >> of getting that part right, and probably without randomly writing >> metadata >> somewhere on the drive simply for JBOD. >> >> Anyone know for sure ? >> >> Cheers >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > > The Star Tech seems to work right, you plug in the disks and they're > recognized as regular sata disks, as if on your on-board controller. No > special modifications required. .. Inconclusive. The Highpoint cards behave like that, too, except they silently corrupt a sector (or more) on the drive at every boot, whether or not one ever "configures" the drive through the built-in RAID/JBOD BIOS. ???