I zero'd all the disks, and now they show up as 'new' in the highpoint BIOS again... so, I guess there IS some reserved part somewhere that's accessible with the sata_mv driver. that's a bit of a problem, because if you overwrite the RAID metadata, the raid bios won't allow booting from the devices... -- 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