Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:56:18 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: fbsd@sefao.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6024H-T / X6DHT-G / Marvell H2 SATA Message-ID: <430BEFE2.4020100@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <200508232223.AA15139130@ns1.sefao.com> References: <200508232223.AA15139130@ns1.sefao.com>
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fbsd wrote: > Hello All, > > For 5.4, FreeBSD AMD64 (and i386) is not able to recognize my diamond-max 160G SATA drives on a Supermicro 6024H-T / X6DHT-G board with the default Marvell H2 SATA ctrl'r. There are SATA drivers for RH, FC3 and Windows from Supermicro: > ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/driver/Diskimag/Adaptec/Marvell/H2/ > > Is there any way to get FreeBSD to run on this machine? It runs on windows so it does not appear to be hardware or BIOS config. > > It's a dual XEON (Nocona) 3.2G board with the Intel E7520 chipset. > > Thank you, > Sejo > Marvell does not release programming specs for their SATA chips, nor do they sell them for use as stand-along SATA controllers. The drivers that are on the Supermicro site are for Adaptec's software RAID solution that uses the Marvell chips. These drivers are binary only, unfortunately. It's a shame, because the Marvell chips are actually pretty good. My challenge for someone to reverse engineer them is still open. Scott
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