Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:04:18 -0500 From: Dan Olson <danolson100@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, judmarc@fastmail.fm Subject: Re: FreeBSD Doesn't "See" Crucial C300 SSD on Marvell Controller Message-ID: <4CCF4772.30504@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1288613544.13669.1402968563@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1288613544.13669.1402968563@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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On 11/1/2010 7:12 AM, Jud wrote: > The old desktop gave up the ghost after many years of use (memory > problems plus a hard drive with an increasing number of bad sectors), > and I've just finished putting together a new one. Win7 x64 and Ubuntu > amd64 are running on it, and I would dearly love to install FreeBSD. > > Hardware is an ASUS Rampage III Formula motherboard with a Crucial C300 > 256GB SATA 6GB/s-capable SSD connected to one of the motherboard's two > internal SATA 6GB/s ports. These two ports use a Marvell 88SE9128 > onboard chip as the controller. The controller is supposed to support > (hardware) RAID, but of course with one drive I am using it in "normal" > non-RAID mode. (To say this particular controller chip has a > problematic reputation at the moment is a bit of an understatement. > I've personally seen some weirdness, including the Crucial drive not > showing up in the BIOS boot priority menu a time or two. Nevertheless, > as I said Winders and Ubuntu are running and I'm really looking forward > to having my favorite OS on my new box.) I also have two Hitachi > Deskstar drives and a USB stick. > > I tried the October amd64 DVD snapshot of -CURRENT from the snapshots > page, guessing it would have the latest hardware support. The DVD boots > into the installer, but sysinstall only shows me the Deskstars and the > USB stick as options to install to. > > Puttering around the lists trying to find something that has any chance > of being relevant, I ran across this excerpt from a post to the > freebsd-current list in October: > > **************************************************************************** >>> In an attempt to get more information about this issue, I'd like to ask >>> people on freebsd-current if they're using any Sandforce-based SSDs with >>> FreeBSD. So far, it appears not a lot of people do, making it hard to >>> debug this issue (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=151608). >> >> MCP5x SATA are not the best controllers for compatibility testing. They >> have enough problems on their own, even without Sandforce. >> >> When you tested Marvell, have you tried to use mvs(4) driver? > > No, I only tried to use ata(4). I tried using mvs(4) now, and that > works! > > mvs0:<Marvell 88SX6081 SATA controller> port 0x4000-0x40ff mem > 0xb0100000-0xb01fffff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci1 > mvs0: Gen-II, 8 3Gbps ports, Port Multiplier supported > mvsch0:<Marvell SATA channel> at channel 0 on mvs0 > mvsch1:<Marvell SATA channel> at channel 1 on mvs0 > mvsch2:<Marvell SATA channel> at channel 2 on mvs0 > mvsch3:<Marvell SATA channel> at channel 3 on mvs0 > mvsch4:<Marvell SATA channel> at channel 4 on mvs0 > mvsch5:<Marvell SATA channel> at channel 5 on mvs0 > mvsch6:<Marvell SATA channel> at channel 6 on mvs0 > mvsch7:<Marvell SATA channel> at channel 7 on mvs0 > > ada0 at mvsch0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0 > ada0:<OCZ-AGILITY2 3.5 1.11> ATA-8 SATA 2.x device > ada0: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 2048bytes) > ada0: Command Queueing enabled > ada0: 85857MB (175836528 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) > > **************************************************************************** > > I don't know enough to understand whether "using mvs" has a chance of > working for me. If it might, how do I "use mvs" when attempting to > install? (The DVD does have the fixit environment available.) > > Thanks in advance for any helpful suggestions, > > Jud Try the ahci driver or lower the speed to 3Gbps and see if that works. Dan
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