Re: [gentoo-amd64] HighPoint Raid Card "Baptized" drives

[Joshua Hoblitt]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 09:23:56AM +0800, P.V.Anthony wrote:
> On this day, 27-April-2007 5:35 AM,  Joshua Hoblitt wrote:
> >On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:27:55PM +0800, P.V.Anthony wrote:
> >>1. Installed the Highpoint RocketRaid 2320 (fake raid)
> >>2. Created some JBOD drives
> >>3. Installed the card drivers
> >>4. Make ext3 filesystem on the drives
> >>5. mount the drives.
> >>6. load some data to the drives
> >
> >Did you do a step 3.5, partitioning the disk?  Or did you try to put the
> >filesystem on the raw block device?
>
> Yes. The partition was made.
>
> The "Staggered Drive Spinup" option was enabled on the card. I suspect
> that the other chips cannot recognize this. I will disable that and see
> if it helps.

Why do you think you an option in your RAID card's BIOS would affect a
SATA controller that's part of your motherboards south bridge?  I'd like
to suggest that it would be easier to diagnose your problem, and easier
for others to help you, if you stopped randomly changing variables in
system.

Now, you say connected a supposedly working SATA disk directly to one of
the ports on your southbridge and you got a "BIOS error" (I assume by
that you mean an is an error was reported during your motherboards
POST).  What was that error?

-J

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