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    sata_mv: Warn about HPT RocketRAID BIOS treatment of "Legacy" drives · 306b30f7
    Mark Lord authored
    The Highpoint RocketRAID boards using Marvell 7042 chips
    overwrite the 9th sector of attached drives at boot time,
    when those drives are configured as "Legacy" (the default)
    in the HighPoint BIOS.
    
    This kills GRUB, and probably other stuff.
    But it all happens *before* Linux is even loaded.
    
    So, for now we'll log a WARNING when such boards are detected,
    and advise users to configure BIOS "JBOD" volumes instead,
    which don't appear to suffer from this problem.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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