From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: marvell sata status? Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:04:21 -0500 Message-ID: <495EF1D5.1020106@rtr.ca> References: <20090101051038.GD3386@pimb.org> <495CCE0F.7010002@rtr.ca> <20090101184450.GG3386@pimb.org> <20090101194302.GH3386@pimb.org> <495E3C92.2070304@rtr.ca> <495E769B.8000407@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]:55313 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750736AbZACFCw (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2009 00:02:52 -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: > >> 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. .. 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