Re: Marvell SATA Support

On Nov 17, 2004, at 3:49 AM, Scott Long wrote:

> 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.
>

uhh, on my system (5.3-STABLE) it exports single disks...  I have the 
RocketRaid1820A and without configuring ANY RAID devices, I got the 3 
disks showing up and working fine as da0 da1 and da2...

Chad