* Marvell 88SX504x 88SX508x SATA host controller drivers?
@ 2004-05-05 20:30 Leon Woestenberg
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From: Leon Woestenberg @ 2004-05-05 20:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-ide
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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