Re: Kernel or patch suggestions for DMA enables Marvell Driver

[Terrence Martin <tmartin@physics.ucsd.edu>]

Bogdan Costescu wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Terrence Martin wrote:
>
>> sata_mv 0000:03:04.0: 32 slots 4 ports unknown mode IRQ via MSI
>
> This line seems to suggest that you have MSI enabled in your kernel 
> config. Both me and Jeff Garzik had to disable it in order to get the 
> driver to work with our Marvell controllers. However, your log shows 
> the driver proceeding further than in my case, so maybe you have a 
> setup that would allow using MSI - what mainboard is this ? (you 
> mentioned Supermicro, but not the model number, unless I missed it...)
>
These are X6DHR-TG and X6DVL-EG2

I also have a similar problem with my Supermicro opterons which as far 
as I can tell have the same controllers. The opterons are H8DAR-T

I can disable MSI and see if that helps.

Terrence