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David Coggin (david-thecoggins) wrote : RE: [Bug 372170] Re: host protected area prevents detection of isw (intel matrix storage manager) raid arrays

Thanks for the reply, Robert.

David

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From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of Robert Collins
Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 10:32 PM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 372170] Re: host protected area prevents detection of isw (intel matrix storage manager) raid arrays

Hi David, your drive setup isn't suffering from the HPA offset issue.
Please file a new bug so that your problem can be tracked - the HPA bug
will be closed soon and I wouldn't want to prevent your issue getting
examined.

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host protected area prevents detection of isw (intel matrix storage manager) raid arrays
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Status in “dmraid” source package in Ubuntu: In Progress
Status in dmraid in Ubuntu Jaunty: New

Bug description:
For some reason, my isw based system has the raid metadata 2115 sectors back. I've hard coded the offset in which got me working; I'm not sure what algorithm should be getting used - perhaps its a misdetect between BIOS and linux, or some other enjoyable weirdness.