Marvell SATA Support
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
chad at shire.net
Wed Nov 17 10:10:20 PST 2004
On Nov 17, 2004, at 3:49 AM, Scott Long wrote:
> Søren Schmidt wrote:
>> Lawrence Farr wrote:
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> I have a Supermicro P4SCT+ with an onboard Marvell
>>> SATA controller, which also has the Adaptec Hostraid
>>> software raid functionality. Are there any patches to
>>> support the marvell controller as a plain controller
>>> anywhere?
>>>
>>> pciconf output if anyones interested:
>>>
>>> none4 at pci2:4:0: class=0x010000 card=0x504111ab chip=0x504111ab
>>> rev=0x03
>>> hdr=0x00
>>> vendor = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd)'
>>> device = '88SX504 4-port SATA I PCI-X Controller'
>>> class = mass storage
>>> subclass = SCSI
>> Not yet, but I'm working on it, actually on the exact same board.
>> Maybe, just maybe, you could hack the Highpoint hptmv driver, I
>> havn't tried but unless they put in "tricks" to prohibit that it
>> should work.
>
> The hptmv driver only exports raid devices, not single disks, and those
> raid devices have to have HPT metadata on them. The magic here is
> buried in the binary object file along with the Herc programming
> details, so I don't think it'll be possible to get anything useful out
> of it.
>
uhh, on my system (5.3-STABLE) it exports single disks... I have the
RocketRaid1820A and without configuring ANY RAID devices, I got the 3
disks showing up and working fine as da0 da1 and da2...
Chad
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