On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:48:44 +0100 Hein-Pieter van Braam <hp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Man, what a quirky BIOS! > > Hum... I can pvcreate on the md device just fine, but after that, pvscan > won't find it... > > I have a suspicion that there's a BIOS doing some sector hiding or > replacement of sorts... > > *facepalm* That would make sense. However we have weapons to make it surrender. See the "dmraid" tool - you should be able to use that as an example of how to set up device mapper mapped linear mappings to "unshift" partitions. Alan - 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