Re: new Marvell SATA controller

On 2009-04-24, at 17:29, Mike Tancsa wrote:

> At 11:06 AM 4/24/2009, Rafal Jaworowski wrote:
>
>> On 2009-04-24, at 16:36, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>>
>>> One of my suppliers sent me a new inexpensive Supermicro SATA
>>> controller
>>>
>>> none1_at_pci0:1:0:0:       class=0x010000 card=0x050015d9
>>> chip=0x648511ab rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>>>   vendor     = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd)'
>>>   device     = 'MV6446x System Controller for PowerPC Processors,
>>> Revision B'
>>>   class      = mass storage
>>>   subclass   = SCSI
>>>   cap 01[48] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D1 D3  current D0
>>>   cap 05[50] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit
>>>   cap 10[e0] = PCI-Express 1 legacy endpoint
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if this is just a case of adding the device IDs or
>>> is it a different beast all together ?
>>
>>
>> Have you got more info on the whole product like name/symbol?
>
>
> http://www.supermicro.com/manuals/other/AOC-SASLP-MV8.pdf
> is the product. It seems to imply it has a 88SE6480 controller on it ?
>
>
> Nothing else shows up in the dmesg nor pciconf -lvc


It seems that 88SE6480 internally is build around this integrated  
controller then, and simply presents as such during enumeration.

If our ata(4) does not support other similar models (88SE6320, 6440),  
a new driver would probably be needed for this to work.

Rafal