From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Small Subject: Re: Added advisement against marvell ATA controller in the ATA wiki page Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:05:08 +0100 Message-ID: <4DF240B4.1030901@seoss.co.uk> References: <20110610070030.GB15235@htj.dyndns.org> <4DF20BDC.5090109@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from relay1.allsecurenet.com ([78.47.234.210]:51756 "EHLO relay1.allsecurenet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752482Ab1FJQFW (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:05:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4DF20BDC.5090109@pobox.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Tejun Heo , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik , Saeed Bishara , Hubert Bailey On 10/06/11 13:19, Mark Lord wrote: > It's only the Marvell AHCI controllers that are causing grief. > The ones supported by sata_mv are among the very best performing > SATA controllers that work with Linux. > It looks to me like Marvell have stopped further development on sata_mv interface cards - does anyone know if it's the case? I couldn't find any SATA3 6GBps, or PCI-e 2.0 chips, so I assumed that Marvell has gone for ahci or mvsas only for it's current/future product ranges? That's why I chose the 88SE9123 - as they seemed to offer reasonable performance/features etc. (albeit single lane PCI express only). Cheers, Tim. -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1TQ VAT number: 900 6633 53 http://seoss.co.uk/ +44-(0)1273-808309