From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 13 06:56:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01B0D16A41F for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 06:56:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896B743D46 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 06:56:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.204] ([192.168.254.204]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j9D6uK61053365; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:56:20 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <434E0511.7000704@samsco.org> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:56:17 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050615 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Nilsson References: <434E005B.70408@gneto.com> In-Reply-To: <434E005B.70408@gneto.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA Support (Marvell chip) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 06:56:22 -0000 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. Scott