Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA Support (Marvell chip)
Scott Long
scottl at samsco.org
Wed Oct 12 23:56:22 PDT 2005
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
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