Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:23:46 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: fbsd@sefao.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6024H-T / X6DHT-G / Marvell H2 SATA Message-ID: <20050824122346.GA37979@lack-of-gravitas.thebunker.net> In-Reply-To: <430BEFE2.4020100@samsco.org> References: <200508232223.AA15139130@ns1.sefao.com> <430BEFE2.4020100@samsco.org>
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--liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:56:18PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > fbsd wrote: > >Hello All, > > > >For 5.4, FreeBSD AMD64 (and i386) is not able to recognize my diamond-ma= x=20 > >160G SATA drives on a Supermicro 6024H-T / X6DHT-G board with the defaul= t=20 > >Marvell H2 SATA ctrl'r. There are SATA drivers for RH, FC3 and Windows= =20 > >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=20 > >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 > > >=20 > 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. Yeah -- we had a very similar experience with a machine based on the X6DHP-TG board (which is pretty much the same as the X6DHT-G, just a different form factor to permit using dual PSUs in a 1U server). There's no support for the Adaptec Marvell RAID. Supermicro claim that FreeBSD 5.x /is/ supported though -- at: http://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/OS/E7520Compatibility.cfm but you have to read that very carefully indeed in order to realise that the FreeBSD 5.x support is claimed only when using the SATA connectors on the ICH5R Southbridge. On the other hand, if you need no more than two hard drives in the machine, and you don't need hardware RAID, then those are pretty nice boards. gmirror(8) works very well indeed to make a mirrored system drive. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 8 Dane Court Manor School Rd PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Tilmanstone Tel: +44 1304 617253 Kent, CT14 0JL UK --liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBQwxm0pr7OpndfbmCAQL8zgQA3uTU9IIathNYvhm85DGIwLpUO7q+/Iz+ ZtPcbd6KTuMVYtciAPmihLJY5HEyadeLkDd9V/qJIHENds1JTula4uZskElDCGfX XcAeN79OYUM24I54aJHMD4+2/yhtfAeEV1ZA1Hbh3i7xGlxAdzgh0U2TgEvetc+z SqMc/2t4NgA= =CyDB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --liOOAslEiF7prFVr--
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