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From: "Leon Woestenberg" <leonw@mailcan.com>
To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Marvell 88SX504x 88SX508x SATA host controller drivers?
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 22:30:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1083789039.12945.185714943@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)

Hello,

I am aware of one open-source driver for the Marvell SATA host controller
series:

Marvell 88SX5040/88SX5041/88SX5080/88SX5081

1 = integrated flash interface
4 = four-port model
8 = eight-port model

It is available here: ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/driver/SATA/DAC_SATA-MV8/
(source code) and should compile under at least Red Hat kernels.

Are there reports on its proven quality, whether SMART works with
smartmontools,
and if/how hotplug/hot-add/hot-swap/hot-remove is handled?

I.e. can we run a 4 disk software RAID-5 from this controller and use
hot-swap
and SMART reliably?

Also, I noticed there is no driver yet for the libata framework by Jeff
Garzik.
Jeff reported to work on hotswap RSN so maybe a libata driver for Marvell
is
the way to go?

Given the host controller chip datasheet, would it be hard to add a
libata driver
(what are the hurdles to take?)

Regards,

Leon.

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