sata_mv: Warn about HPT RocketRAID BIOS treatment of "Legacy" drives
authorMark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Tue, 4 Dec 2007 19:07:52 +0000 (14:07 -0500)
committerJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Tue, 4 Dec 2007 19:07:52 +0000 (14:07 -0500)
commit306b30f74d37f289033c696285e07ce0158a5d7b
tree9299e34c8b2442dc6fbb5e5a42ea8614ca0ee86d
parent3f3debdbfb7713aa06c4370bab6bef277dfd7a37
sata_mv:  Warn about HPT RocketRAID BIOS treatment of "Legacy" drives

The Highpoint RocketRAID boards using Marvell 7042 chips
overwrite the 9th sector of attached drives at boot time,
when those drives are configured as "Legacy" (the default)
in the HighPoint BIOS.

This kills GRUB, and probably other stuff.
But it all happens *before* Linux is even loaded.

So, for now we'll log a WARNING when such boards are detected,
and advise users to configure BIOS "JBOD" volumes instead,
which don't appear to suffer from this problem.

Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
drivers/ata/sata_mv.c