LG combo drive and Attansic Technology ethernet card on Asus P5Q Pro

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 12:33:04AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:49:01PM +0100, Dieter wrote:
> > >> The drive is a new LG combo drive, I believe GH22LP20 or something close to it.
> > 
> > I have an older LG PATA combo drive which works ok.
> > 
> > Does it show up when booting?  (Does dmesg work from the installation shell?)
> > 
> > Maybe you need to "kldload atapicam" ?  Or is that only needed for writing,
> > I forget...
> > 
> > > The only thing I can think of is that the P5Q boards use a Marvell
> > > ATA/IDE controller (yes, you read that correctly).  I wonder if FreeBSD
> > > somehow lacks support for this...
> > 
> > 7.0 ata man page claims support for:
> > 
> >      Marvell         88SX5040, 88SX5041, 88SX5080, 88SX5081, 88SX6041,
> >                      88SX6081, 88SX6101, 88SX6141.
> 
> None of these are what's on the P5Q series boards.  The P5Q series
> boards use a Marvell 88SE6102 Super I/O chip, which also drives IDE/PATA
> devices.  (SATA is driven via ICH10 or ICH10R).
> 
> I'm left to believe FreeBSD simply lacks support for this very new
> Marvell chip.  I'm willing to bet there is no sign of ata(4) devices nor
> atapci(4) PCI association during boot-up.

Mac folks are seeing the same problem:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=128985
http://www.insanelymac.com/lofiversion/index.php/t99634.html

Wikipedia states the 88SE6121, not the 88SE6102, is used on P5Q series
boards.  But the P5Q SE motherboard manual states it's a 88SE6102.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Marvell_Technology_Group_chipsets

So either the motherboard manual is wrong, Wikipedia is wrong, or the
P5Q SE and P5Q Pro contain different models/versions of ICs.

When I get a P5Q SE for Yong-Hyeon, I'll make note of what's
silkscreened on the ASIC.

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