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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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