Re: marvell sata status?

[Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>]

Justin Piszcz wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Mark Lord wrote:
> 
>> 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
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>>>
>>> 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.
..

Well.. what do *you* think the answer is?

Unless you've zeroed the entire drive beforehand,
and then inserted it into a given controller,
and then scanned for non-zero sectors.. how can you tell?

That's what we ended up having to do with the Highpoint ones,
and the result was rather shocking at the time.

Cheers