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[PATCH] cciss: set default raid level when reading geometry fails

This patch sets a default raid level on a volume that either does not support
reading the geometry or reports an invalid geometry for whatever reason. We
were always setting some values for heads and sectors but never set a raid
level. This caused lots of problems on some buggy firmware. Please consider
this for inclusion.

Thanks,
mikem

Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Mike Miller 18 years ago
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drivers/block/cciss.c

@@ -1907,6 +1907,7 @@ static void cciss_geometry_inquiry(int ctlr, int logvol,
 			       "does not support reading geometry\n");
 			drv->heads = 255;
 			drv->sectors = 32;	// Sectors per track
+			drv->raid_level = RAID_UNKNOWN;
 		} else {
 			drv->heads = inq_buff->data_byte[6];
 			drv->sectors = inq_buff->data_byte[7];