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

From: Scott Long <scottl_at_samsco.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:56:17 -0600
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
Received on Thu Oct 13 2005 - 04:56:22 UTC

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