Re: sata_mv not working with a RocketRaid 2220

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Jean-Louis Dupond wrote:
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-------- Originele bericht --------
Onderwerp:     sata_mv not working with a RocketRaid 2220
Datum:     Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:15:30 +0100
Van:     Jean-Louis Dupond <[email protected]>
Aan:     [email protected]



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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