Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:27:12 +0100 | From | Jean-Louis Dupond <> | Subject | Re: sata_mv not working with a RocketRaid 2220 |
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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 > > - > 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 >
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