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Summary

Older controllers have errata which causes the disk controller to wrap
data to other LBAs, causing data to be overwritten [1]

1: https://www.broadcom.com/support/knowledgebase/1211161496563/3-terabyte-3tb-capacity-drives-on-lsi-megaraid-and-3ware-control

PR: 220343
Submitted by: Sebastian Oswald <sebastian at rostwald.de>

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igor, which passes.

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debdrup added a reviewer: 0mp.
0mp requested changes to this revision.Jan 16 2021, 11:16 PM
0mp added inline comments.
share/man/man4/mpt.4
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I'd drop the emphasis from most.

If necessary, use .Em.

158

I think that we generally try to avoid "you" in documentation.

This revision now requires changes to proceed.Jan 16 2021, 11:16 PM
debdrup marked 2 inline comments as done.

Address feedback from 0mp

The syntax seems correct, I cannot tell if the content is fine as well.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jan 16 2021, 11:38 PM
pauamma_gundo.com added inline comments.
share/man/man4/mpt.4
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s/unexpetedly/unexpectedly/