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

[Steve Franks]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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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In a related issue, I've got a L2 (not L1 or L1E) that shows up when I
boot PC-BSD, but not with 7.1 prerelease.  KDE drove me nuts, though,
so I just bought a $15 pci 100T to replace it.  Still, I'm suprized
that the driver shows up in PC-BSD - perhaps more of a config problem?

best,
Steve