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Commit: 4e5200334e03e5620aa19d538300c13db270a063
Parent: e41bd3e854e3536de847d5831c0e25a47f394885
Author: Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AuthorDate: Tue Dec 11 12:58:05 2007 -0500
Committer: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CommitDate: Mon Dec 17 20:33:12 2007 -0500
sata_mv: improve warnings about Highpoint RocketRAID 23xx cards
Improve the existing boot/load time warnings from sata_mv
for Highpoint RocketRAID 23xx cards, based on new knowledge
about where the BIOS likes to overwrite sectors with metadata.
Harmless to us, but very useful for end users.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/ata/sata_mv.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c b/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c
index fe0105d..37b850a 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c
@@ -2506,11 +2506,31 @@ static int mv_chip_id(struct ata_host *host, unsigned
int board_idx)
if (pdev->vendor == PCI_VENDOR_ID_TTI &&
(pdev->device == 0x2300 || pdev->device == 0x2310))
{
- printk(KERN_WARNING "sata_mv: Highpoint RocketRAID BIOS"
- " will CORRUPT DATA on attached drives when"
- " configured as \"Legacy\". BEWARE!\n");
- printk(KERN_WARNING "sata_mv: Use BIOS \"JBOD\" volumes"
- " instead for safety.\n");
+ /*
+ * Highpoint RocketRAID PCIe 23xx series cards:
+ *
+ * Unconfigured drives are treated as "Legacy"
+ * by the BIOS, and it overwrites sector 8 with
+ * a "Lgcy" metadata block prior to Linux boot.
+ *
+ * Configured drives (RAID or JBOD) leave sector 8
+ * alone, but instead overwrite a high numbered
+ * sector for the RAID metadata. This sector can
+ * be determined exactly, by truncating the physical
+ * drive capacity to a nice even GB value.
+ *
+ * RAID metadata is at: (dev->n_sectors & ~0xfffff)
+ *
+ * Warn the user, lest they think we're just buggy.
+ */
+ printk(KERN_WARNING DRV_NAME ": Highpoint RocketRAID"
+ " BIOS CORRUPTS DATA on all attached drives,"
+ " regardless of if/how they are configured."
+ " BEWARE!\n");
+ printk(KERN_WARNING DRV_NAME ": For data safety, do not"
+ " use sectors 8-9 on \"Legacy\" drives,"
+ " and avoid the final two gigabytes on"
+ " all RocketRAID BIOS initialized drives.\n");
}
case chip_6042:
hpriv->ops = &mv6xxx_ops;
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