> Man, what a quirky BIOS! > > Okay, so if I connect a drive and don't do anything in the Highpoint BIOS setup, > it then corrupts the drive by overwriting the 9th sector on every reboot. > > But.. if I connect a drive and go into the Highpoint BIOS setup, > and "initialize" the drive there, and then set it all as a "JBOD volume", > it then leaves the drive content untouched on subsequent reboots. > > Screwy to the max. > > So, I might be able to boot from it by cloning the disk *after* setting > it to "JBOD" in the BIOS. That will take a (longish) while to do. I've just managed to boot with PXE and 2.6.23.9 and I have come to the following: * softraid still works * sata_mv is a bit slower than the proprietary highpoint drivers (I get 300MB/s from my array rather than 400MB/s) * they array works * the content of the array seems to have shifted 'down' a bit, that's probably why it won't boot. it's a tad weird, but I can see the data just fine when I dump the content of the drives, but it seems to be in the wrong place. I'll recreate my volumes with sata_mv now, see if it will work like this. -- 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
