Re: Marvell SATA Support

Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 

Bah, you're right, I wasn't thinking correctly when I wrote that.  Sorry.

Scott