LG combo drive and Attansic Technology ethernet card on Asus
P5Q Pro
Jeremy Chadwick
koitsu at FreeBSD.org
Tue Oct 14 04:27:15 UTC 2008
On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 12:39:30AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> 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.
Yong-Hyeon received my hardware yesterday. Before I shipped it, I
made note of the silkscreening on numerous chips:
Atheros AR8121-AL1E = GigE NIC + PHY
Marvell 88SE6102-NNC1 = ATA/IDE controller
Nuvoton/Winbond W83667HG-A = Super I/O + hardware monitoring
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