From: Jean-Louis Dupond <info@dupondje.be>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sata_mv not working with a RocketRaid 2220
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:27:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4767E6D0.7010408@dupondje.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4766FBBF.5020606@rtr.ca>
Noticed it yet its not the best driver around, but its weird it almost
can initialize 1 device on the controller (sdb), and the rest totally fails.
Tried to put each disk in a JBOD, but that doesn't fix it neither.
Anyway thank you for the reply. Think i'll get some better controller :)
Mark Lord schreef:
> Jean-Louis Dupond wrote:
>> Added CC to linux-ide
>>
>> -------- Originele bericht --------
>> Onderwerp: sata_mv not working with a RocketRaid 2220
>> Datum: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:15:30 +0100
>> Van: Jean-Louis Dupond <info@dupondje.be>
>> Aan: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to get my HighPoint RocketRaid Controller working with the
>> sata_mv drivers.
>> But something is not working correctly :(
>>
>> Kernel version 2.6.23.11 (also tried 2.6.24-rc5 with same results)
>> Controller in lspci: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MV88SX6081 8-port
>> SATA II PCI-X Controller (rev 07)
>>
> ..
>
> The sata_mv driver is currently not very good,
> but should improve over this winter as some effort
> is finally going into fixing it.
>
> And the Highpoint RocketRAID cards are a similarly dubious choice,
> as their onboard BIOS is known to corrupt filesystems before Linux
> is even booted.
>
> In particular, an "unconfigured" drive -- just plugged into a RR card
> without entering the BIOS setup to configure a RAID -- gets sector 8
> overwritten by the BIOS. This will destroy GRUB if it was installed.
> And for drives which *have* been configured in the RR BIOS,
> it overwrites a sector at the end of the final full GB on the drive,
> for holding RR metadata.
>
> Cheers
>
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2007-12-17 10:57 Jean-Louis Dupond
2007-12-17 22:44 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-18 15:27 ` Jean-Louis Dupond [this message]
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2007-12-16 23:15 Jean-Louis Dupond
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