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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 <mlord@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Mark Lord 2007-12-11 12:58:05 -05:00 committed by Jeff Garzik
parent e41bd3e854
commit 4e5200334e
1 changed files with 25 additions and 5 deletions
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@ -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;