Re: sata_mv and Highpoint RocketRAID 230x, corruption?

[Mark Lord]

On 10-10-22 10:21 PM, Daniel Taylor wrote:
> Mark Lord wrote:
> > The RocketRaid BIOS that I examined here a couple of years ago,
> > liked to write "metadata" over top of whatever was in certain sectors
> > near the end of the drive.  EVEN FOR NON-RAID DRIVES.
> >
> > I think it was the last even (power-of-two) multiple of 1GB
> > or something,
> > so if you leave the final 2GB untouched, you're guaranteed to
> > avoid it.
> >
> > Thus the recommendation.
>
> What happens to the backup GPT at the end of the disk?

Dunno.
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