Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:56:17 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Martin Nilsson <martin@gneto.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA Support (Marvell chip) Message-ID: <434E0511.7000704@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <434E005B.70408@gneto.com> References: <434E005B.70408@gneto.com>
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Martin Nilsson wrote: > Adaptec have a new moderateley priced SATA-II 4-port PCI-X fakeraid > adapter available. > > Unfortunateley driver support for decent operating systems is very > limited, only binary drivers for a few rather old linux distributions. > > The chip on the adapter is called AIC-8130 and is also marked Marvell > 88SX6541-BCZ, the adaptec Linux driver is called aar81xx. > > Is there someone here with contacts inside Marvell or Adaptec so that we > can get specifications for this chip? I can donate a card and a SATA-II > drive to any interested developer if we can obtain specifications. > > /Martin Nilsson There are no longer any FreeBSD people doing work for Adaptec. Occasionally I fiddle with aac stuff for them, but I no longer have anything to do with the 'fakeraid' as you call it =-) Getting specs out of Marvell is impossible; it's been tried many times for their previous SATA and network chips, and the result is almost always nothing but frustration. Scotthelp
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