Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:59:17 +0200 From: "Vincent Barus" <vibarus@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LG combo drive and Attansic Technology ethernet card on Asus P5Q Pro Message-ID: <e4207650810131859s7ce18b15pfb785801848aa105@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081004073930.GA49756@icarus.home.lan> References: <20081004034524.GA44662@icarus.home.lan> <200810040649.GAA19778@sopwith.solgatos.com> <20081004073304.GA48931@icarus.home.lan> <20081004073930.GA49756@icarus.home.lan>
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Hi, maybe Andrey Elsukov can help with this Marvell chips: http://butcher.heavennet.ru/patches/kernel/ata/marvell/README.txt He worked on it for a few months. Regards, Vincent On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 12:33:04AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:49:01PM +0100, Dieter wrote: >> > >> The drive is a new LG combo drive, I believe GH22LP20 or something close to it. >> > >> > I have an older LG PATA combo drive which works ok. >> > >> > Does it show up when booting? (Does dmesg work from the installation shell?) >> > >> > Maybe you need to "kldload atapicam" ? Or is that only needed for writing, >> > I forget... >> > >> > > The only thing I can think of is that the P5Q boards use a Marvell >> > > ATA/IDE controller (yes, you read that correctly). I wonder if FreeBSD >> > > somehow lacks support for this... >> > >> > 7.0 ata man page claims support for: >> > >> > Marvell 88SX5040, 88SX5041, 88SX5080, 88SX5081, 88SX6041, >> > 88SX6081, 88SX6101, 88SX6141. >> >> None of these are what's on the P5Q series boards. The P5Q series >> boards use a Marvell 88SE6102 Super I/O chip, which also drives IDE/PATA >> devices. (SATA is driven via ICH10 or ICH10R). >> >> I'm left to believe FreeBSD simply lacks support for this very new >> Marvell chip. I'm willing to bet there is no sign of ata(4) devices nor >> atapci(4) PCI association during boot-up. > > Mac folks are seeing the same problem: > > http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=128985 > http://www.insanelymac.com/lofiversion/index.php/t99634.html > > Wikipedia states the 88SE6121, not the 88SE6102, is used on P5Q series > boards. But the P5Q SE motherboard manual states it's a 88SE6102. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Marvell_Technology_Group_chipsets > > So either the motherboard manual is wrong, Wikipedia is wrong, or the > P5Q SE and P5Q Pro contain different models/versions of ICs. > > When I get a P5Q SE for Yong-Hyeon, I'll make note of what's > silkscreened on the ASIC. > > -- > | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | > | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | > | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- ~ vb
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