Re: Marvell SATA Support

From: Scott Long <scottl_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 03:49:10 -0700
Søren Schmidt wrote:
> Lawrence Farr wrote:
> 
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I have a Supermicro P4SCT+ with an onboard Marvell
>> SATA controller, which also has the Adaptec Hostraid
>> software raid functionality. Are there any patches to
>> support the marvell controller as a plain controller
>> anywhere?
>>
>> pciconf output if anyones interested:
>>
>> none4_at_pci2:4:0: class=0x010000 card=0x504111ab chip=0x504111ab rev=0x03
>> hdr=0x00
>>     vendor   = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd)'
>>     device   = '88SX504 4-port SATA I PCI-X Controller'
>>     class    = mass storage
>>     subclass = SCSI
> 
> 
> Not yet, but I'm working on it, actually on the exact same board.
> Maybe, just maybe, you could hack the Highpoint hptmv driver, I havn't 
> tried but unless they put in "tricks" to prohibit that it should work.
> 

The hptmv driver only exports raid devices, not single disks, and those
raid devices have to have HPT metadata on them.  The magic here is
buried in the binary object file along with the Herc programming
details, so I don't think it'll be possible to get anything useful out
of it.

Scott
Received on Wed Nov 17 2004 - 09:48:34 UTC

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