> > > I'll try and make a bootable USB stick with my patched 2.6.23.9 and see > > what the results are then. > .. > > How are you booting without the USB stick? > Are you booting from the Highpoint card drives? > What bootloader ? > > Thanks > - Right now I just boot using GRUB really, perhaps the BIOS hides the 9th sector if it's in some form of RAID mode? I haven't had any trouble using GRUB... I haven't done anything special apart from putting the drives in JBOD mode, each disk is set to JBOD, it's set per disk, so not one large JBOD over 8 disks, but 8 separate JBOD volumes. Hope that helps... -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html