Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA Support (Marvell chip)

[Scott Long]

Martin Nilsson wrote:
> Adaptec have a new moderateley priced SATA-II 4-port PCI-X fakeraid 
> adapter available.
> 
> Unfortunateley driver support for decent operating systems is very 
> limited, only binary drivers for a few rather old linux distributions.
> 
> The chip on the adapter is called AIC-8130 and is also marked Marvell 
> 88SX6541-BCZ, the adaptec Linux driver is called aar81xx.
> 
> Is there someone here with contacts inside Marvell or Adaptec so that we 
> can get specifications for this chip? I can donate a card and a SATA-II 
> drive to any interested developer if we can obtain specifications.
> 
> /Martin Nilsson

There are no longer any FreeBSD people doing work for Adaptec. 
Occasionally I fiddle with aac stuff for them, but I no longer have
anything to do with the 'fakeraid' as you call it =-)  Getting specs
out of Marvell is impossible; it's been tried many times for their
previous SATA and network chips, and the result is almost always
nothing but frustration.

Scott