Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:10:14 -0700 From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> Subject: Re: Marvell SATA Support Message-ID: <EE1F2A66-38C3-11D9-BC47-003065A70D30@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <419B2CA6.3010401@freebsd.org> References: <20041116145445.EC71167E2B@gunfright.epcdirect.co.uk> <419B177D.2090206@DeepCore.dk> <419B2CA6.3010401@freebsd.org>
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On Nov 17, 2004, at 3:49 AM, Scott Long wrote: > Søren Schmidt wrote: >> Lawrence Farr wrote: >>> Hello All, >>> >>> I have a Supermicro P4SCT+ with an onboard Marvell >>> SATA controller, which also has the Adaptec Hostraid >>> software raid functionality. Are there any patches to >>> support the marvell controller as a plain controller >>> anywhere? >>> >>> pciconf output if anyones interested: >>> >>> none4@pci2:4:0: class=0x010000 card=0x504111ab chip=0x504111ab >>> rev=0x03 >>> hdr=0x00 >>> vendor = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd)' >>> device = '88SX504 4-port SATA I PCI-X Controller' >>> class = mass storage >>> subclass = SCSI >> Not yet, but I'm working on it, actually on the exact same board. >> Maybe, just maybe, you could hack the Highpoint hptmv driver, I >> havn't tried but unless they put in "tricks" to prohibit that it >> should work. > > The hptmv driver only exports raid devices, not single disks, and those > raid devices have to have HPT metadata on them. The magic here is > buried in the binary object file along with the Herc programming > details, so I don't think it'll be possible to get anything useful out > of it. > uhh, on my system (5.3-STABLE) it exports single disks... I have the RocketRaid1820A and without configuring ANY RAID devices, I got the 3 disks showing up and working fine as da0 da1 and da2... Chadhelp
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