Hein-Pieter van Braam wrote:
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.
.. Yeah, that's my suspicion too.. they must have just simply moved the metadata to near the end instead of sector-8. Mmm... I'll try a smaller drive here, and zero the entire drive, then reboot with it on the Highpoint board, and then see what sector it modified. This'll take a while. Cheers - 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
