Re: sata_mv not working with a RocketRaid 2220

[Jean-Louis Dupond <info@dupondje.be>]

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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